Adversity Quotes - Page 13

You can handle any situation by divine grace.

Adversity refined us like gold.

I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.

In times of turbulence, we must keep calm and be patient.

Life kept throwing me storms, but I kept finding rainbows.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle.

When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest.

When you face the worst situation, what do you do? Do you cry? No!With positive mentality you can graciously overcome the situation.

What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.

All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

Search deep within your soul, you will find strength.

When darkness comes,stars shine.When storms come,plants flourish.When adversity comes,champions triumph.

Strength for today, overflowing grace.

If everybody in the world got together and put their troubles up for sale on the table, you'd grab your troubles back and run away.

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

So, with my knees pierced by needles and my shoulder sewn together by the slender thread of endorphins, I keep to my genuflection and end my story the only way that really fits. As a prayer that seals surrender. World without end. Amen.

Only a master weaver could intertwine dark and light threads in such a way that all one saw was beauty when looking back at the finished tapestry.

Some champions are born others are forged!

Adversity tests the limit of our strength.

No one can foretell the details in a day, we can only hope.

They sicken of calm who know the storm.

I hold steadfast to hope.

Without hope we fail to exist.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times.

People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth.

May you find the courage to rise above any circumstance.

In every situation, there is a sacred answer.

And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

May you find grace to survive life difficulties.

The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence every one must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.

I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline the sensations but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly to try to understand things.

Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.

Every challenge you conquer, will make you courageous.

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.

Throw a champion into the ocean, and he’ll swim.Throw a champion into the pit, and he’ll climb.Throw him off a cliff, and he’ll grow wings.Throw him into a furnace, and he’ll become gold.

You have great talents. Aim for God best for your life.

When life gets hectic and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to focus on the people and things you are most grateful for. When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by the wayside.

Singing in a storm silences thunder’s threats.

Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water.

The gift of life is the most valuable wealth.

When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.

One of the greatest gift you can give another human being whi is going through adversity is HOPE.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything better.

It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and damaged, which should remind us that there are real limits to what evil and misfortune can accomplish. If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening. If you bomb a city, you leave behind death and destruction. But you create a community of remote misses. If you take away a mother or a father, you cause suffering and despair. But one time in ten, out of that despair rises as indomitable force. You see the giant and the shepherd in the Valley of Elah and your eye is drawn to the man with sword and shield and the glittering armor. But so much of what is beautiful and valuable in the world comes from the shepherd, who has more strength and purpose than we ever imagine.

Adversity is hidden treasure of life.

Read, mediate and speak the word of God into your mind, soul and spirit.

Be like stars; instead of cursing the darkness, shine.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The strength of the spirit is measured by sufferings.

Before the storm, he'd been a man who never met a stranger, never seemed to doubt himself. He could run faster than anyone; there had been joy in his movements, his world was full of possibilities, and he'd stood taller than he actually was. Like a house cat, Mae had once thought privately, who discounted the rumor of tigers.

The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity.

In the midst of the disappointment, we find faith as an anchor!

Golden possibilities exist in every adversity.

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.