 Pressure on the outside should make us bigger on the inside. Author: Warren Wiersbe |
| Every obnoxious act is a cry for help. Author: Zig Ziglar |
| Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. Author: Zig Ziglar |
| If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders. Author: Isaac Newton |
| We build too many walls and not enough bridges. Author: Isaac Newton |
| Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. Author: Jeremy Taylor |
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| Look at that beautiful butterfly, and learn from it to trust in God. One might wonder where it could live in tempestuous nights, in the whirlwind, or in the stormy day; but I have noticed it is safe and dry under the broad leaf while rivers have been flooded, and the mountain oaks torn up from their roots. Author: Jeremy Taylor |
| If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards. Author: John Henry Newman |
| Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. Author: John Henry Newman |
| I never love those salamanders that are never well but when they are in the fire of contention. I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior, is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness. Author: Joseph Hall |
| Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not which is the most useful. Joy I may choose for pleasure; but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes these do so far help me, that I should, without them, want much of the joy I have. Author: Owen Feltham |
| Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear. Author: Charles Stanley |
