 The conflict will always be beyond your strength. The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we will go for God. The test kills the limits of our humanity, until we are like Christ in everything. We are left with a choice: Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness. Author: Francis Frangipane |
| For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart. Author: A.W. Pink |
| 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. Author: John of Kronstadt |
| 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. Author: R.C. Sproul
Source: Essential Truths of the Christian Faith |
| The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm. Author: R.C. Sproul |
| A friend cannot be known in prosperity. An enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. Author: Jack Hyles |
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| If you know people in your church or your neighborhood that are facing adversity, I encourage you to offer a hand of friendship to them. That is what Jesus would do. Author: Jonathan Falwell |
| A work that has little opposition from the antagonistic system of Satan is one that is doing little work for the Lord... The devil's greatest opposition is the Lord's greatest work. Author: John MacArthur
Source: 1 Corinthians, p. 465. |
| To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good. Author: Jerry Bridges
Source: The Practice of Godliness, p. 207. |
| The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done. Author: John Piper |
