Inspirational Quotes on Adversity

“The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, "Here comes my food!"”

“Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]”

“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”

“Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.”

“Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.”

“A friend cannot be known in prosperity. An enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.”

“A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.”

“Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not which is the most useful. Joy I may choose for pleasure; but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes these do so far help me, that I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.”

“If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?”

“And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.”

“For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart.”

“If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.”

“If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road - abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called. In Latin America someone who feels sorry for himself is said to look like a donkey in a downpour. If we think of the glorious fact that we are on the same path with Jesus, we might see a rainbow.”

“Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.”

“He that has never known adversity but half acquainted with others or himself.”

“If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.”

“The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.”

“Contention is like fire, for both burn so long as there is any exhaustible matter to contend within. Only herein it transcends fire, for fire begets not matter, but consumes it; debates beget matter, but consume it not.”

“It is precisely this kind of anti-Christian religious litmus test that many Americans find deeply offensive. Our nation is founded on Judeo-Christian principles which have made it one of the freest nations in the world.”

“Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.”