Quotes About Adversity

Yet within seconds she summoned her steely will, this will that so impressed Dirk Burnaby, for he'd never encountered anything like it in his life, establishing where she was, and why. The bad dream was outside her, in the world. She must conquer it there or nowhere.

The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That's why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint.

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God's eyes.

Satan will aggressively fight against the renewal of your mind, but it is vital that you press on and continue to pray and study in this area until you gain measurable victory.

If someone hurts you, cry a river, then build a bridge and get over it. Unknown

Great character is not developed through ease and convenience but through doing NOW what needs to be done no matter how difficult it

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances, instead of your circumstances having power over you.

The Lord simply told me, "I am the One Who called you. Don't worry about what people think. If you do, you are going to be worrying all your life because the devil will never stop finding people who will think something unkind about you." In

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror.

When we don't have anyone else, we develop a deep relationship with God that will carry us through anything life brings our way. The

We are the only ones who can make decisions for ourselves about how we will handle the situations that arise in our lives. Life is not likely to get any easier, but our approach to life can change and that will make it easier.

Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes; for the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught. —PROVERBS 3:25–26 NKJV

We cannot always control all our circumstances, but we can control ourselves with God's help.

Some people seem to start their day on the "wrong foot." They feel all right when they wake up, but as soon as something goes wrong, they lose their footing and walk with a "loser's limp" the rest of the day. Once they are off to a bad start, it seems they never catch up.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Psalm 30:5b Have you ever noticed that being upset or downtrodden about problems never changes them? Sometimes we don't take time to look at the fruit of our actions, but if we did, surely we would see that worry is useless. We can learn to enjoy the journey of life, even when it takes us in a different direction than we had planned.

Proverbs 24:16,…a righteous man falls seven times and rises again.… God

God is on your side, and if He is for you it really does not matter who is against you. The giants may be big, but God is bigger. You may have weaknesses, but God has strength. You may have sin in your life, but God has grace. You may fail, but God remains faithful!