Quotes about Hardship
At times there is a crushing before a crowning.
- Perry Stone
You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
- Genesis 31:6
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
- Genesis 31:40
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
- Genesis 41:51
Now the famine was still severe in the land.
- Genesis 43:1
“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
- Genesis 47:9
They worked the Israelites ruthlessly
- Exodus 1:13
and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
- Exodus 1:14
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
- Exodus 2:11
Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”
- Exodus 5:9
Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
- Exodus 5:18
Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
- Numbers 11:1