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Adversity

Posted on November 2, 2022April 20, 2023 by Alan Holden
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God gives burdens, also shoulders. –Yiddish proverb

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. –Helen Keller

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. –Lord Kelvin

In order to realize the worth of the anchor, we need to feel the stress of the storm.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. –M. Scott Peck

It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ability to get into trouble and the ability to get out of trouble are seldom present in the same person.

With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. –David Lloyd George

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. –Chinese proverb

God will look you over, not for the medals or degrees, but for scars. –Edward Sheldon

Christ did not come to do away with suffering; He did not come to explain it; He came to fill it with His presence. –Paul Claudel

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential–and enemies to push us beyond it. –Jim Vorsas

Never fear shadows. That just means a light’s shining somewhere nearby.

A woman described a nerve-wracking ordeal: “It was like being trapped for four hours in a stuck elevator with a team of Jehovah’s Witnesses.”

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