Quotes related to 1 Peter 1:6-7
We want God to fix all our problems. God says instead, "I have a purpose for your problems. I want to use your problems to change you and to reveal My grace and power to the world." That is the Truth—and the Truth will set you free.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Within every adversity is an equal or greater benefit. Within every problem is an opportunity. Even in the knocks of life, we can find great gifts.
— Napoleon Hill
Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.
— Napoleon Hill
This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly.
— Thomas Merton
This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly. That war is our wilderness.
— Thomas Merton
Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
— Kathleen Norris
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
— CS Lewis
If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.
— Calvin Coolidge
there is something about these expectations and visions of the last things, that will send them into the light and focus of the consciousness of believers, whenever storms of persecution arise and hard distresses invade.
— Geerhardus Vos
He had always been thin, but there he was reduced to nothing but skin and bones. His skin was burned by the unrelenting sun, salt, and sand, his features sharpened: he was a Giacometti sculpture in cast iron.
— Isabel Allende
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
— Duke Ellington