Inspirational Quotes on Adversity

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

“Opposition is not only evidence that God is blessing, but it is also an opportunity for us to grow.”

“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!"”

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

“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.”

“Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.”

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”

“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.”

“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.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

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

“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.”

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

“True rest is not that of torpor, but that of harmony; it is not refusing the struggle, but conquering in it; not resting from duty, but finding rest in it.”

“The conflict will always be beyond your strength. The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we will go for God. The test kills the limits of our humanity, until we are like Christ in everything. We are left with a choice: Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness.”

“When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.”

“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.”

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

“Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.”

“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”