“It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.” MenHumansJoyFightingPassionPowerfulGriefEffectsProduceAmbitionAdversityAncientCastsProsperitySatisfiedObservationBreastsObligedJoy And Grief Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.” IfsProducePressureAdversityCarefulOppressionBe CarefulCensorshipDiamond Author:Tatyana Tolstaya
“The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone.” KnowsPersonsReasonBeautifulKnow HowProduceAdversitySaintGod LovePreservesReposePersons Love Author:Alphonsus Liguori
“Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not necessarily make us repent. The essence of repentance is that we cannot be repentant until we confront our own self righteousness with God's righteousness.” MayDoeWarSelfProduceDiseaseEssenceAdversityInjuryRepentanceRighteousnessRepentPlagueCalamityFamineSelf RighteousSelf Righteousness Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.” BelieveSoulArtistHumanityStarsSkyWorstGreatnessProduceCircumstancesOrdinaryAdversitySurfaceAwakeningCanvasSublime Author:Richard Paul Evans