Top 100 God Adversity Quotes
#1. Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.
Charles Stanley
#2. Your mind is greater than your problems,
your heart is greater than your troubles,
your soul is greater than your temptations,
and your God is greater than your obstacles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#3. But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?
R.C. Sproul
#4. God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#5. The presence of God is always with you.
Be strong and courageous. Fear not! God will grant you the strength to overcome any adversity.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#6. When we no longer have the strength to keep on walking, God will carry us. His strength is enough for you and I.
Dana Arcuri
#7. Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.
Andy Stanley
#9. We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.
Wilson Benton
#11. The smaller you get - the smaller life makes you - the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.
Tullian Tchividjian
#12. We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.
Alistair Begg
#13. When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.
Joel Osteen
#14. 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
#16. In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
Charles Spurgeon
#17. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#28. Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Kathryn Hulme
#30. I feel it's okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don't stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.
Robin Roberts
#31. Don't focus on the adversity; focus on God. No matter what you go through, stay in faith, be your best each day and trust that God will use it to position you for greatness.
Joel Osteen
#32. God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
Catherine Marshall
#33. God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.
William Ralph Inge
#34. Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]
Richard Baxter
#35. Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
Joseph Hall
#37. I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
Helen Keller
#39. 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.
Arthur W. Pink
#40. 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
#41. See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
John Of The Cross
#43. Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.
Criss Jami
#44. Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#45. True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
Thomas Aquinas
#46. Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.
Jerry Bridges
#47. When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and hurtfulness of sin; and therefore now I will mourn, not because I am crossed, but because I have deserved this cross, and a worse too."
William Whately
#48. I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander Pope
#49. No matter how fierce the enemy seems
when fear cripples us, anger enrages us, or selfishness possesses us; when adversity crushes us, opposition hounds us, or temptation plagues us
God is greater.
Katy Kauffman
#50. Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.
David A. Bednar
#51. Thus the Stoics arrive at their main thesis. Virtue alone is admirable, virtue is absolutely self-sufficient; the good man needs no help from circumstances, neither sickness nor adversity can harm him; he is a king, a god among men.
Marcus Aurelius
#55. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
Seneca The Younger
#64. 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
#66. In the face of adversity I shall not weaver because the LORD our GOD is always by my side.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#67. 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
#68. 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
#70. In times of trouble, be strong. And wait patiently for God to rescue you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#71. God's grace grant us immeasurable ability to overcome adversity of any type.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.
T. B. Joshua
#73. 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.
#77. 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
#78. 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
#81. 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
#82. In our adversity, God shouts to us.
C.S. Lewis
#83. 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
#84. God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.
John H. Aughey
#85. 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
#86. At the crossroad, may God point the straight path for your journey.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.
James MacDonald
#90. If you bow your knees more often in prayer, you will feel the presence of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#91. 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
#92. God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble ...
Anne Askew
#94. 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
#95. 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
#98. In the wilderness, our faith is tested, and God faithfulness is manifested.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#100. 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
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