Adversity Quotes - Page 21

In the moments of adversity, we engaged our minds on beautiful thoughts, our spirit on spirituality and our hands on inspiration writings. What a good trade of pain for peace of mind?

Lailah Gifty Akita

Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.

The father and daughter made their way north, through unknown sylvan paradises where only the owls and skunks know their way around. The hard work of paddling non-stop for many hours had long since stopped being difficult for Saweyimew. In spite of her beauty and grace, her back had grown strong and sinewy from years of canoe trips. She reveled in the exhilaration it always brought her, after the first few hours left her body insensible to pain or discomfort. Warm and tingly, lulled into peaceful contemplation by hours of the rhythmic paddling, the smell of the water, exotic blooms, animal musk. It all combined as one to make her feel so alive. Especially when it rained, and her body steamed against the cool drops, feeling invincible against the elements. The mountain of her father's back was like a rock against anything nature could throw against them. The stream of fragrant pipe-smoke still flowing from his lips, regardless of any obstacle. She felt at that moment, nothing would ever stop her father's pipe from smoking. Nothing, not death, not any force of the living or spirit world, would ever still her father's heart. Rain cleansing her to the core, she was a spring of raw power and self-reliance, paddling against all adversity--their master completely. Her father's daughter. At times like that, when it rained, she entirely understood and shared her father's outlook on life.

Alexei Maxim Russell

ENDURANCEI don't know you,But I love you,Just as God loves me and you.The sun and the moonAre opposing forces,But they still greet each other,Peacefully,As one awakens in the morning,Just as the other goes to sleep.Life has pounded me downAnd thrashed me around,Time and time again,But I always get right back up,Because I still love life -Just as the earth still lovesThe rain.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

Human being may fail you, but God will never forsake thee.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That’s only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds – as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

You can survive any situation with strength of spirit and soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to go through the spiritual fires to know the strength of your faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!

Israelmore Ayivor

They'll tell you who they think you should be they'll even try to manipulate you into believing it but let me tell you something son, if I listened to who I was supposed to be - this, everything we are and do wouldn't be in existence. Be a leader, find yourself and make a life with it. Those who judge you and try to force the patterns of their beliefs onto you are envious they haven't the strength in themselves to do the same.

Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.

Israelmore Ayivor

When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.

Israelmore Ayivor

Yes, You Can!You Can Turn Your... ...Adversity into Your Advantage...Mess into Your Message...Test into Your Testimony...Pain into Your Possibilities ...Setback into a Major Comeback...Gift into Greatness ...Passion into Profit...Success into Significance ...Limitation into Creativity Most importantly, you can and will turn your dreams into reality!

A leader must lead. Where others see obstacles, he must see opportunities. When others see problems, he must see possibilities ... Civilization is not built on a negation but on an affirmation- an affirmation of the bright and promising possibilities that the future holds for those who are enterprising enough to pursue them.

David J. Vaughan

Adversity quickens the mind, awakens the spirit and strength the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity tests what the soul can endure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity is the test of strength in every soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The soul awakens in times obscurity by divine grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is strength of soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as a spirit, exists beyond death; and therefore only he could do it righteously. For the physical being kills a man and hatefully sends him away, whereas God, the spiritual being, kills a man and lovingly draws him nigh.

In the darkness time, the soul evolves to give light to the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The soul gets tougher with every endure situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I make art when I can't gather the words to say.

She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.

Christianity is living hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The soul awakens in times of difficulty by divine grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to pray, read and mediate on word of God. These acts lead to the greatest spiritual awaken.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God’s manifest His mighty power, when we absolute depend on Him.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can read the word of God, but without mediation and prayer, we become spiritually weak and unfilled.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When faced with a difficult situation, do not panic but pray!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Enjoy the times of plentiful and endure the times of scarcity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever your situation, may you find hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith gives us strength.Grace gives us power.Hope gives us anchor.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To get power is to pray.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Without adversity, we will not have seen the sweetness of God’s splendid.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are empowered by God to overcome every adversity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The sweetness of adversity: we develop the sanity of solitude.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord cared for us in the wilderness. May we never forget Him in times of abundance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed. But we dwell on the promise of God; we find the faith, hope and courage to survive life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter what happens to you, if you have life, with faith and hope, you will live to see your situation change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t complain. Find the courage to be grateful for every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We don’t survive to live. We live to survive.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the midst of the storm, my only anchor is the Saviour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We face many trials, beyond our human ability to endure. We learn to depend on only God’s grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God continue to rescue us from mortal sufferings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Stop complaining. Be grateful for every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The grace of endurance is the great power of God at work within us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We can see the beauty of life, with positive focus.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You might not get the apology you deserve. You might not get answers to explain the actions of others. You might not get truth that makes sense to you. You might not get people to understand what you went through because of them. You might not get communication. You might not get maturity. You might not get mercy or even common decency. You might not get respect or the chance to explain your side of the story. However, you do get to choose how people treat you. God loves you enough to bring people into your life who won't hurt you, abuse you, betray you, lie and gossip about you, psycho analyse you, break your heart or make you an option or choice. He will bring people into your life that will love you, respect you, fight for you, show gratitude for your love and want to be a part of your life mission. The best part of this is you don't have to convince them of your worth. They want to be there. They know your value. They know your struggles. They are in touch with their own faults and understand you struggle just like everyone else. They won't hold you to a greater standard then they do themselves. They care about you and don't want to see you cry, feel discouraged or give up on this life. When you know the power of who you are and what you have to accomplish you will scratch your head in disbelief that you allowed other people to dictate who you are based on little knowledge of what God knows about you and your life purpose. Letting go isn't about accepting defeat or acknowledging you were wrong. Sometimes letting go is realizing that God has something better in store for you.

Shannon L. Alder

But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Søren Kierkegaard

Whenever, you face a challenge, it is time for a change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I became a mother before becoming sick, but i never expected sickness to take away my independent mothering, so i plant trees to sooth my soul from the aching pains of losing the maternal ability to mother another child. My first born will be my only treasure, the one who knew who i was before the mess entered our lives and also the one who adapted with me to a reality we weren't certain of oh and lots of plants and plants and plants.

This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to nourish it, and its faint sun to warm it; the bleak winds have not blanched it, or broken its stem, and the keen frost has not blighted it. Look, Gilbert, it is still fresh and blooming as a flower can be, with the cold snow even now on its petals.

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.

Shannon L. Alder

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