Quotes About Adversity

If I'm in a situation where the temptation is overwhelming, I will have to choose to either remove the temptation or remove myself from the situation.

When things are going wrong, praise Him anyway! Thank Him in advance for the good He will surely bring from all situations (Romans 8:28).

If this now broken relationship was Your best, You wouldn't have kept me from it. And if it is Your best sometime in the future, the enemy won't be able to keep us apart.

One rejection after another did quite a number on my heart. And each new rejection didn't just add hurt; it multiplied the pain that was already there. That accumulation created a dark feeling of hopeless defeat.

Heartbreaking seasons can certainly grow me but were never meant to define me. I let go of the hurt and embrace the growth the minute I'm able to say, "Yet not what I will, but what You will.

I can't control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them. I can say to myself, "I have a choice to have destructive thoughts or constructive thoughts right now. I can wallow in what's wrong and make things worse, or I can ask God for a better perspective to help me see good even when I don't feel good.

The enemy may be vicious, but he is not victorious.

I can face things out of my control without acting out of control.

We see that all those harsh realities aren't the end, but rather a temporary middle space. Not the place where we are meant to wallow and dwell. Rather the place through which we will have to learn to wrestle well.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad--and what she has is always a package deal of both.

lion looking for someone to devour.

Progresa. Solo progresa. Está bien tener reveses y la necesidad de volver a hacerlo. Está bien trazar una línea en la arena y empezar de nuevo… y de nuevo. Solo asegúrate de seguir moviendo la línea hacia delante. Avanza. Da pasitos de bebé, pero al menos da pasos que impidan que te quedes atascada. Entonces vendrá el cambio. Y será bueno.

If Satan can use our everyday experiences, both big and small, to cripple our true identity, then he renders God's people totally ineffective for the kingdom of Christ.

Even amid hardship, trials, and things that don't go the way we want them to, we can find something to be joyful about.

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.

Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn't let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be

The breaking of us has actually been the making of us . . . the God-strengthened us He could use.

Without challenges and changes people tend to grow increasingly distant from God and resistant to His ways.

Heartbreaking seasons can certainly grow me but were never meant to define me.

I can't control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them.

No puedo controlar las cosas que me suceden cada día, pero puedo controlar cómo pienso al respecto.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Being human in our modern civilization is being forced into a boxing ring with Nature. And we're bloodied every time.