Quotes about overcoming-adversity

concentrate less on people and much on purpose. People can put your purpose in disarray your purpose can put people in disarray.

Don’t let the situation say stop to your true purposesay stop to the situation. Situations are situations and you are you

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.

As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God.

The true test of a warrior is how your 'stance' holds up after any 'circumstance'. Meaning, even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through both his or her eyes. You may get hit by sudden lightning or take severe beatings from the cruel wind, but you will always get back up and stand strong on your feet again, soak in the sunlight, and be prepared to get hit by even the most merciless hail - time and time again.

But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.

The courage to live brings its own rewards.

The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.

I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth-sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting without bitterness those portions we have been afforded the luxury to see.

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.

Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,

Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

Our experiences always teach us something. If the experience is "bad", then the lesson is even more powerful and meaningful. Every unfortunate incident makes us stronger and better equipped to handle new challenges.

Trust in God gives self-power.

Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.

It's not enough to step in front of people's bullets; you have to be bulletproof too. You have to be harder than anything anyone else can throw at you, and sometimes you risk losing yourself just trying to save yourself.

Without challenges, we fail to wonder.

I have all the patient to wait for what I want.

Faith can keep you alive in any storm.

How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it. [Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.]

The happiest of endings begin with a struggle so embrace yours

You see, Christ's purpose can't be derailed by your limitations or troubles. Your difficulties will not trip Him up or cause Him delays. Painful trials, which may bring you to your knees will not baffle our Creator. He has a God-sized dream waiting for you to accomplish. His majestic plan is sovereign. Ultimately, He could use anything to graciously lead you to victory.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.

Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.

Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.

(I)f you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the road will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

I am more than my scars.

Don’t run from your weakness, you will only give it strength.

I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.

It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and damaged, which should remind us that there are real limits to what evil and misfortune can accomplish. If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening. If you bomb a city, you leave behind death and destruction. But you create a community of remote misses. If you take away a mother or a father, you cause suffering and despair. But one time in ten, out of that despair rises a

Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.

Endure the pain, overcome the hurt.

Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be.

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.

You are stronger than your challenges and your challenges are making you stronger.

Use what you've been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!