Quotes About Adversity

Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.

You had some unexpected help. You had help from God! Essentially, it became a handicap match! Me vs you and God!

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.

When God wants to make a man, he puts him into some storm.

It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

God willing, we will throw them into the sea.

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

Sometimes God teaches us how to solve our problems. Sometimes God teaches us how to face our problems

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

God uses everything for good in our lives.

Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.

God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

He who takes whatever God sends with smile has learned lifes hardest lesson.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God.

If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.