“Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations.” – John of Kronstadt1
“Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ’s sake.” – John Bunyan
“If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.” – John Henry Newman
“Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief, and yet in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which His supernatural power is demonstrated.” – Charles Stanley
“And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.” – Watchman Nee
“Jesus’ life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.” – R. C. Sproul
“If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you’re serving in the wrong place.” – G. Campbell Morgan
“A pure heart won’t get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.” – John Hagee
“I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don’t feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.” – Jerry Bridges
“You don’t know how much you’ve grown–until trouble comes back for an encore.” – T. D. Jakes
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” – Helen Keller
“When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.” – A. W. Pink
“In times of adversity Satan will seek to plant the thought in our minds that God is angry with us and is disciplining us out of wrath. Here is another instance when we need to preach the gospel to ourselves. It is the gospel that will reassure that the penalty for our sins has been paid, that God’s justice has been fully satisfied. It is the gospel that supplies a good part of the armor of God with which we are to stand against the accusing attacks of the Devil (see Ephesians 6:13-17).” – Jerry Bridges
“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.” – Albert Schweitzer
1 All of these quotes are from the websites below:
60 Quotes About Adversity | ChristianQuotes.info
140 Fierce Quotes About Overcoming Adversity & Finding Strength
Some great quotes here. Thank you brother Curt. God bless you today 🙏