Quotes About Adversity

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

embrace your hard times. "God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times." ~John Bytheway #QuotesForLife

Beware the Wrath of a Patient Adversary.

Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.

This world is behind enemy lines. Secret powers rule it. But they don't want to kill us with bombs or knives. They want even worse for us. They want to kill the better part of us, the part that hopes. Illnesses and accidents are weapons in their hands, weapons of despair, meant to turn our thoughts down and down to dark and dismal paths.

The first kind of problems are the ones life sends upon you to test you, to make you humble or make you longsuffering, or whatever you may need.

The first kind builds character. You cannot grow without this kind of problem, any more than you can build muscles without exercise.

None within this Last Redoubt can be alone. Our enemies are ever with us, unsleeping, tireless, horrid.

Everything bad that they (the ungodly) can seize hold of in our life is twisted maliciously against Christ and His teaching. The result is that by our fault God's sacred name is exposed to insult. The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more intent we should be to avoid their slanders, so that their ill-will strengthens us in the desire to do well.

It is clear that bearing the cross patiently does not mean that we harden ourselves or do not feel any sorrow; according to the old notion of the Stoic philosophers that a greathearted man is someone who has laid off his humanity, and who is not touched by adversity and prosperity, and not even by joy and sorrow, but who acts like a cold rock.

there shall never be quietness for the Kingdom of Christ in this world, because it will always be infested and troubled by its enemies. Secondly

So it will be that no matter what kind of cross is placed upon us, we will steadily maintain endurance even through the narrowest straits of the soul.

Although the wicked rise up against us with violence, let us be of a bronze countenance, as Ezekiel says (3:8 f.). Let

since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.

For the more we are afflicted by adversities, the more surely our fellowship with Christ is confirmed!

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

Whoever said nothing is impossible obviously hasn't tried nailing Jell-O to a tree.

True love is many things and can survive the strongest and most painful of times. When love comes out the other side of a fire, it may be scarred forever, but this bruised love is somehow only greater for having survived the pain.

A busy monk is besieged by a single devil but an idle one is destroyed by spirits innumerable.

you can't describe a company or a leader as "great" until they have gone through a near-death experience and come back.