Top 100 Adversity God Quotes
#1. In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
Charles Spurgeon
#2. In our adversity, God shouts to us.
C.S. Lewis
#3. The sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
L.M. Montgomery
#4. In the wilderness, our faith is tested, and God faithfulness is manifested.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#7. This Bible of Mine? It is the breath of God spoken into my weary bones. It is the armor I need to walk the roads He has chosen for me, and it's the confirmation of promises that withstand the test of hours and adversity.
It's a love letter, and it has my name on it.
It has your name on it.
Angie Smith
#8. Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
Silvia Cartwright
#9. The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.
Charles Stanley
#10. God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.
John H. Aughey
#11. I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.
Samuel Rutherford
#12. At the crossroad, may God point the straight path for your journey.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.
James MacDonald
#15. Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.
John Calvin
#16. If you bow your knees more often in prayer, you will feel the presence of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.
Izaak Walton
#18. God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble ...
Anne Askew
#20. Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.
Shannon L. Alder
#21. In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.
Rachel Simon
#22. Christians don't face adversity by stoically decreasing our love for the people and things of this world so much as by increasing our love and joy in God.
Timothy J. Keller
#23. There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.
Winston Churchill
#24. Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.
Gregory Of Nazianzus
#27. Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.
Tariq Ramadan
#28. Some days the burdens may seem so heavy and the weariness so profound that you may wonder if God has forsaken you. Why would He allow you to experience such deep adversity? Yet do not despair. He has a clear purpose for your suffering: so you will know the Savior better and reflect His character.
Charles F. Stanley
#30. Trials are a part of life, but there is value in sometimes experiencing adversity which will test (and so strengthen) our faith and also build an understanding of God and ourselves.
Eric Ives
#32. The fog may seem thick but the sun will surely pierce through and brighten up the sky. Allow yourself to continue to rest on the wings of God's love and watch yourself learn to soar high.
Kemi Sogunle
#36. God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.
Jerry Bridges
#39. Winds of adversity may have blown through your life. Your world may be falling apart. But if you will look closely enough, you'll see the light of God's faithfulness shining through the debris.
Dutch Sheets
#43. If you're facing a season of trials, don't allow the enemy to have a field day by putting negative thoughts in your mind. Let go of stinking thinking. Instead of turning away from God in anger or confusion, run into His loving arms where He will comfort you.
Dana Arcuri
#45. Spiritual pain is when you can't stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can't let go.
Shannon L. Alder
#46. Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.
Ardeth Kapp
#47. We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.
Shannon L. Alder
#48. If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.
Jerry Bridges
#51. Sometimes it feels as if God set you on Earth with a bottle full of nasty-tasting pills called days and these instructions: Swallow one at a time. When entire prescription is finished, you may return home.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#53. No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.
Dana Arcuri
#54. 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.
Criss Jami
#55. Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
Seneca The Younger
#57. Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
Charles Stanley
#58. God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless
Saint Augustine
#61. In the face of adversity I shall not weaver because the LORD our GOD is always by my side.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#62. In the day of prosperity rejoice, but in the day of adversity consider: God hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Anonymous
#63. Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.
Max Anders
#64. The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#65. Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.
Jim George
#66. In times of trouble, be strong. And wait patiently for God to rescue you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#68. God loves our attention, sometimes adversity is away to draw us closer to Him.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. God's grace grant us immeasurable ability to overcome adversity of any type.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#70. Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.
T. B. Joshua
#71. Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.
Thy friends do stand by thee ... '
-Jesus the Christ
Joseph Smith Jr.
#74. 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.
Karen Witemeyer
#79. I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.
Mother Teresa
#84. The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
Teresa Of Avila
#86. With God, all things are possible- including, dominating adulthood, swimming upstream for life, and living in light of eternity in a world that tells you all you can do is live for the moment.
Katie Kiesler
#87. We must ... submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
Robert E.Lee
#92. There are times when God draws us into the wilderness but He does so for a purpose and never with the intention that we make permanent camp there.
Katherine J. Walden
#95. You must remember that you are not what you are going through, but what you have come through. Your adversity is unique because God has entrusted to you a measure of adversity that only you can handle.
Rickie Rush
#97. Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#98. The dark times are there for you to grow and to create a dependency on God. This is all part of your sanctification process.
Michael Barbarulo
#99. Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
Catherine Marshall
#100. Now here is what you need to understand: If you don't turn your adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain. But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.
Mark Batterson
