Quotes about Adversity
It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription!
— Bishop TD Jakes
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
— William Tyndale
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
— John Maxwell
Sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.
— DA Carson
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
— Elisabeth Elliot
In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.
— Horatius Bonar
It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.
— Hudson Taylor
This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.
— Martin Luther
How blessed to know that when the world hates us, God loves us!
— AW Pink
The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.
— Mark Batterson
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
— John Calvin