Pastoral Resources

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Adversity is a stimulus.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.