Adversity
681 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 628 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Adversity
- The things that happen to us are never about those things, but God uses those things to do The THING that He wants to do in us.
- Adversity is to the spirit and soul what going to the gym is for the body.
- To be on an anvil is to be in a state of preparation or formation.
- Adversity is the University of Success.
- We allow God to add His SUPER to our natural when we use adversity to help us UP, rather than hold us back.
- Never allow the PIT you are in, to make you PITiful.
- God is a God of comebacks.
- The purpose for our wilderness is to work out our freedom.
- Remember today, a dream that is worth pursuing will have many obstacles! Every obstacle becomes a stepping stone to your next level!
- Understand the plan, follow the pattern, receive the promise...overcome obstacles.
- You can either allow the problem to minimize God or allow God to minimize the problem! Our God is a BIG God!
- Embracing resistance is using what could stop you...to GROW you!
- You will never have the Best, without the Test.
Other voices on Adversity
- A brave spirit struggling with adversity is a spectacle for the gods.
- A calm mind is not the absence of conflict or stress, but the ability to cope with it.
- A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
- A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
- A good man may be put in the fire, but he cannot be burned.
- A happy life doesn’t mean an easy life.
- A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed—I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
- A real leader cannot be slandered or damaged by lies of the envious, because all such attempts serve only to turn the spot-light on his ability, and real ability always finds a generous following.
- A setback is a setup for a comeback.
- A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
- A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- A word from a friend is doubly enjoyable in dark days.
- Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
- Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.
- Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.Bishop George HorneCommonly attributed
- Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
- Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
- Adversity is always the partner of progress.
- Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.Thomas CarlyleSourced
- Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
- Adversity is the first path to truth.
- Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
- Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you’re feeling sorry for yourself because you’re faced with adversity.
- Adversity reveals strength. Comfort reveals weakness.
- Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
- Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.