Quotes about Adversity
Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.
— Charles Spurgeon
One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.
— Hudson Taylor
Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
— Joyce Meyer
When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.
— Beth Moore
If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
— Charles Spurgeon
If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.
— Hudson Taylor
We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.
— Maude Royden
The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.
— Charles Stanley
God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.
— DL Moody
In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."
— Alphonsus Liguori
Don't worry when you're being persecuted for God, worry when you're not.
— Craig Groeschel
Everything that happens to a child of God, His father filtered and He intends to use it for the good and even when Satan and others mean it for bad because God is sovereignly in control.
— Rick Warren