Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
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- What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.
- What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God’s way of pointing you in a new direction.
- What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
- What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
- What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
- What you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, are probably God's opportunities; and it is nothing new that the patient should dislike his medicines, or any certain proof that they are poisons.
- When crisis and disaster strike, don’t waste them. No problems, no progress.
- When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!
- When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.
- When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "compared to what?
- When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
- When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
- When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage.
- When people are determined, they can overcome anything.
- When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.
- When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.
- When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
- When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
- When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.Peter MarshallCommonly attributed
- When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
- When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.
- When you have a strong enough why, every type of adversity becomes irrelevant.
- Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
- Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
- Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us.
- Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
- Whether you are strengthened by life’s difficulties or broken by them is completely determined by your mindset.
- Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself?
- With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
- Within every problem is a gift that God has for you.
- Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
- Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.
- You are as big as the level of adversity you conquer.
- You are not your bad days.
- You aren’t really being rejected – you’re being redirected.
- You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.
- You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.
- You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.