Quotes about Adversity

Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our sense of balance and perspective.

Nothing will drive us to our knees quicker than trouble.

Jesus asked His followers to count the cost carefully, lest they should turn back when they met with suffering and privation. He told His followers that the world would hate them.

The devil will try to discourage you, to divert you; he will seek to dilute your testimony; he will attempt anything to destroy your relationship to Christ and your influence upon others.

The time to prepare for life's disappointments and hurts is in advance.

Disappointments are part of life; we can't always have our own way, and we need to learn to separate what is significant from what is merely annoying. Only in heaven will we be free of all disappointments and failures. A friend of mine says, "Oh well, a hundred years from now it won't make any difference!

We don't deliberately look for trouble in life. It comes. Suffering is a universal fact; no one can escape its claws.

No one is exempt from the touch of tragedy: neither the Christian nor the non-Christian; neither the rich nor the poor; neither the leader or the commoner. Crossing all racial, social, political, and economic barriers, suffering reaches out to unite mankind.

The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.

The Bible teaches that you have three enemies . . . the devil . . . the world . . . the flesh.

Christians who are strong in the faith grow as they accept whatever God allows to enter their lives.

The devil doesn't need to invent any new temptations; the old ones work as well as they ever have.