Inspirational Quotes on Adversity

“I never fight, except against difficulties.”

“Adversity is hard to endure, and can even be harder to understand. If God were really in control, why would He allow the tragic auto accident or crucial job loss? How could He permit cancer in a loved one or the death of a child? Grappling with His concern for us we ask, "Why is God allowing this?" or "What have I done wrong?”

“The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.”

“You face your greatest opposition when your closest to your biggest miracle.”

“Bumps are the things we climb on.”

“Let God's promises shine on your problems.”

“If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.”

“Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.”

“I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don't feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.”

“If you know people in your church or your neighborhood that are facing adversity, I encourage you to offer a hand of friendship to them. That is what Jesus would do.”

“You don't know how much you've grown--until trouble comes back for an encore.”

“Pressure on the outside should make us bigger on the inside.”