Quotes about Adversity

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

At the end of the day, the enemy is going to be sorry he ever messed with you. You're about to become his worst nightmare a million times over. He thought he could wear you down, sure that after a while you'd give up without much of a fight. Well, just wait till he encounters the fight of God's Spirit in you. Because . . . This. Means. War.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

When the brook dries up because there is no rain, but you say, "Praise the Lord," you bring great honor to God. Trust Him to show you the next step forward. He will. He is never too early, never too late, but always just on time. When God closes a door, He opens a window. Learn to accept the closed door and be prepared for the surprising window that will open. It opened for Elijah and it will open for you.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny. —C. S. LEWIS

In our case, God often raises up an enemy to see if we really want to be like Jesus.

Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life.

What a bitter, bitter thing is the service of Satan, even in this world!

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.