Quotes about Adversity

Many people are impressed by their problems. They live in reaction to the devil.

If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus.

I understand you've got to go through tough times to get better.

Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

Even a broken tree can bear fruit

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.