Quotes about Adversity

If you take a stand [for God] and mean it, you may suffer persecution. Some of your friends will drift away. They don't want to be with people like you. You speak to their conscience. They feel uncomfortable in your presence because you live for God.

The greatest hindrance to Satan's destructive efforts is our standing strong in the knowledge and fear of the Lord.

The way in which we react to hurts and disappointments influences the shaping of our personalities.

Hardship is not our choice; but if we face it bravely, it can toughen the fiber of our souls.

The word joy has all but disappeared from our current Christian vocabulary. One of the reasons is that we have thought that joy and happiness were found in comfort, ease, and luxury. James did not say, "Count it all joy when you fall into an easy chair," but he said, "Count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations" (James 1:2).

Christianity is not an insurance policy against life's ills and troubles.

One of the devil's methods is to attack everyone . . . He knows that the Word of God is powerful, and he will try to keep you from it.

We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting. We need to pray in times of security, lest we become self-sufficient.

This age is interested in success, not suffering … Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about "doing good.

There are storms in your own life: storms of temptation, confusion, and difficulty... An uneasy conscience says, "Stop before it is too late!"

Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before.

We must learn to live triumphantly amid the traumas and pressures we face daily.