Quotes about Adversity
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
— Vance Havner
Times are bad, God is good.
— Richard Sibbes
In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
— Charles Spurgeon
God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
— Thomas a Kempis
Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.
— James MacDonald
Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.
— Andy Stanley
Keep in mind that God's sovereignty allows Him to even use that which is not cooperating with Him (the bad) in order to move things to where He wants them to go.
— Tony Evans
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
— John Calvin
To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!
— AW Pink
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
— Charles Stanley