Quotes about Adversity

opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.

We should stop asking God to get us out of difficult circumstances and start asking Him what He wants us to get out of those difficult circumstances

There is no situation under the sun in which your ability to respond can be taken away from you. You may not control your circumstances, but you control your reactions to them. And that is what sets the men apart from the boys!

It's our past problems that prepare us for future opportunities. So someday we may be as grateful for the bad things as the good things because the bad things helped prepare us for the good things.

if God doesn't answer the way you want, you still need to praise through. That is when it's most difficult to praise God, but that is also when our praise is most pure and most pleasing to God.

you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.

It's not about being in the right place at the right time; it's about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances.

Disappointment is like dream defibrillation. If we respond to it the right way, disappointment can actually restore our prayer rhythm and resurrect our dreams.

When we suffer, God empowers us to face the worst and become our best.

When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.