Quotes about Hardship

certainly lived through more troubles than Tina, though Tina's own life couldn't be considered an easy one.

Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith.

The greater the pressure the brighter the diamond.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

No matter how hard people work to suppress their knowledge of God, creation itself keeps challenging them. "Human life is a continual wrestling match with God and his created order," writes Thomas Johnson. 14

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Yes, your life is messy and hard, but that's not a failure of the plan; it is the plan. It's God working to complete what he's begun in you.

There are times when you are tempted to wonder if it's all worth it. But in all this, God is still at work, molding you into the likeness of his Son. It is, in many ways, a multifaceted life of hardship—the hardships of life in this fallen world intersecting with the restorative hardships of grace.

I have talked with many pastors whose real struggle isn't first with the hardship of ministry, the lack of appreciation and involvement of people, or difficulties with fellow leaders. No, the real struggle they are having, one that is very hard for a pastor to admit, is with God. What has caused ministry to become hard and burdensome is disappointment and anger with God.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

God is working right now, but not so much to give us predictable, comfortable, and pleasurable lives. He isn't so much working to transform our circumstances as he is working through hard circumstances to transform you and me.