Quotes about Adversity

We are like singers in a large chorus. If the guy next to us gets off key, must we? Wouldn't it help him, and us, more to strive to stay on key? We can learn to hold our part.

Struggling is okay. Back-stepping is okay. Small bits of progress are not only okay, they're admirable.

I'm convinced that much of the success I have experienced in life is a result of learning from my failures.

I had focused on the failure because I had not yet acquired the wisdom necessary to attain a better perspective.

It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives" (Genesis 50:20).

Sometimes the worst conditions can often provide the best atmosphere to act in faith. God doesn't want our confidence regulated by our audience. If faith-discouragers can shake our confidence badly enough to disable us, our confidence may be in ourselves instead of God.

When you are trying to discern whether God or Satan is the author of a hardship, one of your best clues is whether sin is involved. God never entices us to sin, nor does he employ sin or perversion as a means of molding us into the image of Christ. Impossible!

The enemy's hope for Christians is that we will either be so ineffective we have no testimony, or we'll ruin the one we have.

The trick to dealing with criticism is letting it do it's good work but forbidding it to demoralize and destroy or to embitter.

But for those who resist insisting on idyllic circumstances and faultless people, new beginnings can be had.