Quotes about Adversity

God's purpose for us is not to make us healthy, happy, prosperous, and problem-free. His ultimate purpose is to conform us to the image of His own dear Son, that we might bear much fruit to His glory.12 And sometimes, in fulfilling that purpose, He allows us to be hurt.

Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.

In life you will meet two kinds of people: Those who build you up and those who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank them both.

People are like tea bags—they never know their own strength until they get into hot water.

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.

For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.

Sometimes life makes you older than your age.

In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.