Adversity Quotes
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Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
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Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.
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Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.
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If you have your mind in the right direction, and your heart is full of the right kind of stuff, you'll succeed and you'll triumph over adversity, over really anything.
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When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.
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Whenever we are going through adversity, we should be able to overcome it, that's what kind of team we should be moving forward.
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True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
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Tough guys toughen up when faced with adversity. So he flexes his gag reflex and steps inside.
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The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.
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God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
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The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
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Art is man's refuge from adversity.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.
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No matter what the challenge or adversity, my ironclad conviction is that God is always good, is always on his throne, is always working, always knows what he is doing, and that his love for me never stops.
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True strength is shown by the person who remains humble, quiet, & positive throughout all adversity and maintains their path towards success.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
