Quotes about Adversity
God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.
— Muhammad Ali
Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.
— Joel Osteen
I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.
— Charles Swindoll
Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.
— Charles Spurgeon
One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.
— Hudson Taylor
Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
— Joyce Meyer
When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.
— Beth Moore
If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
— Charles Spurgeon
If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.
— Hudson Taylor
We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.
— Maude Royden
The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.
— Charles Stanley
God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.
— DL Moody