Quotes about Adversity

Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.

just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered.

He can even use the bad things of life to bring about his ultimate purposes and ends. "That doesn't mean those things aren't bad—they really are bad. But they're all within the sovereignty of God. Even good can come out of evil.

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings us today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle do

Vincit qui patitur [he who suffers conquers].

Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!

Life is filled with terrifying moments, and we cannot stop the onslaught of fear any more than we can hold back the wind. But we can always choose our response. The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet. Allow fear to drive you toward God.

There are very real forces that whisper lying innuendos that assault your mind, your will, and your emotions in the hope of causing you to turn on yourself and then to turn on others.

Our environment either inspires who we want to become or challenges us on what we must avoid.

For truly a dark and murderous enemy has already realized who you are. He knows your potential and is systematically trying to undermine your future. I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.