Quotes About Resilience In Adversity

He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.

— Lamentations 3:16

Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

— Ezekiel 3:8

Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’”

— Ezekiel 17:10

But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

— Matthew 13:6

But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

— Mark 4:6

‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.

— Acts 22:19

I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

— 1 Corinthians 2:3

To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

— 1 Corinthians 4:11

We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

— 1 Corinthians 4:12

We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

— 2 Corinthians 4:8

For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.

— 2 Corinthians 7:5

Indeed, when we were with you, we kept warning you that we would suffer persecution; and as you know, it has come to pass.

— 1 Thessalonians 3:4