Quotes about Adversity
Our environment either inspires who we want to become or challenges us on what we must avoid.
— Lisa Bevere
For truly a dark and murderous enemy has already realized who you are. He knows your potential and is systematically trying to undermine your future. I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.
— Lisa Bevere
The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet.
— Lisa Bevere
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
— Aesop
If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.
— George Whitefield
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
— Epictetus
The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth
— Charles Stanley
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
— James Allen
Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.
— Rick Warren
Come what may and love it.
— Joseph Wirthlin