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“Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.”

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Author:Vance Havner

“God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.”

Trying Doe Sometimes Wish Adversity Hardship Bless Best Wishes

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.”

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Author:Owen Feltham

“I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind of a blessing in disguise, and even though there's sometimes pain associated with these things that sometimes in the face of adversity with obstacles to overcome, people can really kind of soar and find their higher selves.”

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Author:Tony Shalhoub

“In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.”

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Book:Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

“There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured. Most of the heartache, pain, and suffering we would not choose today. But we did choose. We chose when we could see the complete plan. We chose when we had a clear vision of the Savior's rescue of us. And if our faith and understanding were as clear today as it was when we first made that choice, I believe we would choose again.”

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!”

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Author:Adam Johnson

“Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.”

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Author:Steve Allen

“Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.”

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Author:David A. Bednar

“Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.”

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Author:Ruth Asawa

“The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in stride and are prepared for trouble even when at ease; therefore, they are not at the mercy of fate.”

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Author:Zicheng Hong

“Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.”

Sometimes Seems Turns Opportunity Adversity Disguise

Author:W. Clement Stone

“I can't speak for everybody, but sometimes, people get in this showbiz game and they get the money, but then they forget why they got in the game in the first place. I don't even look at it as fame, I just look at it as me being me, and me going out here everyday and being productive, because I am the product, and I'm selling myself. I'm selling my ambition and my integrity and my adversity, and I'd just like to be that.”

People Sometimes Speak Forget Integrity Fame Ambition Adversity Everyday Selling Productive Being Me My Ambition Showbiz

Author:Young Jeezy

“I remember back to my days as a teenager. When you get your feelings hurt, you feel that moment of embarrassment. You think: "No one wants to talk to me ever again. It's all over." I reassure people that's totally not the case. These bullies are just hateful people doing hateful things. Sometimes, it's a lesson in tough love, but you keep positive, smile in the face of hateful adversity and move on. It makes you a stronger person.”

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Author:John Cena

“The key to overcoming adversity is to be ready to understand that you have enough, no matter what rug is pulled out from under you. You can't live in fear, or thinking "I'll never figure it out." The more consciously we can understand what we're experiencing, the more that is our protection. So, we run into adversity, but we don't have to stay there if we have imagination and a way to help ourselves change course. Sometimes we can't - knowing the difference is wisdom and the acceptance that we have enough.”

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Author:Carmen Dell'Orefice

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”

“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”

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Author:Elvis Presley

“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.”

Life Mind Sometimes Character Light Happens Spirit Adversity Keep Moving Calamity Restoration Oaks Tempest Frivolous Presence Of Mind Elasticity

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”

“Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.”

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Book:Kiss of the Night

Source: Kiss of the Night

“Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”

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Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.”

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Author:Wendelin Van Draanen

“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.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”

Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

“Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.”

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Book:Lady sings the blues

Source: Lady sings the blues

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.”

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Author:Will Smith

“For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours.”

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Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.”

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Author:Brett Favre

“Into each of our lives come golden moments of adversity. This painful friend breaks our hearts, drops us to our knees, and makes us realize we are nothing without our Lord and Savior. This friend makes us plead all the night long for reassurance and into the next day and sometimes for weeks and months. But, ultimately, just as surely as the day follows the night, as we remain true and faithful, this strange friend, adversity, leads us straight into the outstretched arms of the Savior.”

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Author:Glenn L. Pace

“Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what doesn't work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity.”

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Book:Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters

Source: Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering.”

“Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our heads held high. Sometimes just walking through adversity to get to the other side is a sign of strength.”

Heart Sometimes Able Sides Walking Adversity Endure Heartache Agony

Author:Sylvia Browne

“We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.”

Needs Sometimes Adversity Depth Fathom

Book:Winner Within Success

Source: Winner Within Success

“Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.”

Sometimes Turns Blessing Adversity Greatest Blessings

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.”

People Sometimes Blessing Angel Adversity Sickness

Book:The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured.”

Ifs Sometimes Walks Known Fire Despair Adversity Refiner's Fire

Author:Richard C. Edgley

“It is true that people are sometimes hit by adversities beyond their control. But those so affected are better helped when they are awakened to the resources they do possess than when they are told they don't have any.”

People Sometimes Resources Adversity Affected Awakened

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother, who lived nearby and always had a kind word and some wisdom to pass on. One day she was complaining to her grandmother about some situation and her grandmother just turned to her, smiled sadly, and said, "Sometimes, darlin', you've just got to rise above yourself in this life." I've remembered that wise advice many times as I've faced trouble in my life.”

“Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.”

Men Sometimes Facts Suffering Adversity

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky