Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
- Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
- Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They’re informative. They’re a wake-up call.
- Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.
- Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
- To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.
- To be overcome by adversity and threatening failure is to lose strength; to always remain in the same lofty, determined mood is to constantly grow in strength.
- To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.
- To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
- To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.
- Tough times never last, but tough people do!
- Tribulation will not hurt you unless it does--what, alas! it too often does--unless it hardens you, and makes you sour and narrow and sceptical.
- Trouble comes to all, but, while it makes some people stronger and better in every way, it submerges others so that they never rise again.
- Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
- Troubles are God's love-letters, written in dark ink.
- Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. God Almighty casts a man down when he wants to chisel him, and the chiseling is always to make him something finer and better than before.
- Troubles are often the tools by whioh God fashions us for better things.
- True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.
- Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.
- Turn your scars into stars.
- Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
- Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.
- Virtue is like precious odours, — most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
- We acquire the strength we have overcome. Without war, no soldier; without enemies, no hero. The sun were insipid if the universe were not opaque.
- We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
- We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
- We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
- We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
- We are sure to get the better of Fortune if we do but grapple with her.
- We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.
- We don’t so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
- We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
- We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.
- We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.
- We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes.
- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
- We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
- We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.