Quotes About Adversity

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

To fish in troubled waters.

God's time to help is when things are at the worst; and Providence verifies the paradox, The worse the better.

Outward losses drive good people to their prayers, but bad people to their curses.

Weapons formed against God's Israel cannot prosper long, and shall be broken at last.

Strong faith is often exercised with strong trials and put upon hard services.

What seems to tend to the church's ruin is often overruled to the ruin of the church's enemies, whose pride and malice are fed by Providence, that they may be ripened for destruction.

Those that in good earnest set their faces heaven-ward, and will live godly in Christ Jesus, must expect to be set upon by Satan's temptations and terrors.

Trouble will drive those to God who have said to him, "Go away

Those that cast off the duties of religion in their prosperity cannot expect the comforts of it when they come to be in distress. Justly

When men's spirits are sinking every thing helps to sink them.

that life deal with it,life must go on,if we dont then we find ourself in a black hole which we cant get out of....never ending depression

We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us.

We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us. This is one of the supernatural mysteries of our journeys here on earth.

You are not what happened to you.

And so it will be with your life. There will be tough times—there are for everyone. There will be times of fear and trembling. There will be times of discouragement and disillusionment. Have courage, smile, keep your chin up, laugh often, be kind to yourself, stay focused, be gracious and appreciative, think happy thoughts, and carry on regardless.

In every moment of every day, resistance is there, waiting to pounce. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.

doesn't stop, but he slows down. "How are you?

The unexpected is either a curse or an opportunity. We get to decide.

it is easy to get so caught up in surviving that we stop dreaming.

The food is awful," Jan wrote, "and cooked in such a way that no civilized white man can stand it for more than a week or two … Almost all the food is fried. They feed us fried green bananas, boiled rice, and foul-smelling salt fish. It rains so much that honest to goodness my hat is getting mouldy on my head… I haven't had on a pair of dry shoes in weeks.

Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

Money is good, but it is not all about a man. You will have successes and reversals, but remember it is your reaction to each of them that counts for your character.

it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.