Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.