Quotes about Adversity

When satan wants you to cry and you laugh, you defeat him

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities

Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.

Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.