Quotes About Adversity

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

When you decide to walk by faith, you don't get rid of trials. You learn to overcome them.

Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?

It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.

Everyone's a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the sunshine of blessing.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

When things start to get rough, you find comfort in your faith. Knowing that no matter what, you can dust yourself off and be okay.

You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can't use that as a reason to give up or stop.

A great storm puts out a little fire but feeds a strong one. Trials conquer weak faith but grow a strong faith.

Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.

When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There's a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.

Peace is worth far more than anything they might take from you.

Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.