Quotes about Adversity

No matter how strong we are, there is always something that can cause the heart to flutter and the pulse to weaken.

God gives you the strength to stand in the midst of turmoil and walk through it victoriously!

It is from the depths of dark and dirty places in our lives that we scream for God's attention and help while misunderstanding that, just like with a natural seed, it is the microbes in the soil of life that eat away at our efforts to protect ourselves from harm.

We hope that our incessant need to make things better for them didn't make them less capable human beings, less able to withstand the trials that will come their way because they didn't experience any disruption growing up.

to weakness if you're fighting the wrong issue or the wrong person, or for the wrong reason.

The best way to beat somebody is to show them who you are, and to succeed by doin' what they say you can't.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

There are days when you make runs, and there will be a dry spell. Like in business, every year you don't make profits.

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.