Quotes about Strength In Adversity
...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.
— Ted Dekker
How thankful I am for Matthew 5:11: "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you.
— Terry James
We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Ever since his first attack
— St. Therese of Lisieux
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
— Theodore Roosevelt
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Give me courage to resist, patience to endure, constancy to persevere.
— Thomas a Kempis
Write, read, sing, weep, be silent, pray, endure adversities manfully; eternal life is worthy of all these conflicts, yea, and of greater.
— Thomas a Kempis
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they reveal what he is.
— Thomas a Kempis
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering had no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and more intensely.
— Viktor E. Frankl
There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.
— Viktor E. Frankl