For this is the only and highest possible consolation of Christians in all adversities to know that God does not lie, but does all things immutably, and that His will can neither be resisted, nor altered, nor hindered.
Did not the son of that celebrated Frenchman, surnamed Bras de Fer, write a book not only to prove that adversities are more necessary than prosperities, but that among all adversities a prison is the most pleasant and profitable?
They, too, were pilgrims on earth, who had to suffer theadversities and miseries of life and therefore know by experience how sorely in need of divine assistance we poor mortals are.
Persons who have themselves experienced trials have more compassion for the adversities of others.
The most unhappy man in the world is he that is not patient in adversities : For men are not killed with the adversities they have, but ivith the impatience they suffer.
The people blame themselves for the disasters and the adversities which they endure continually.
Neither is he immoderately dejected in the present adversities that may befall him; but the loss of the soul grieves him to his very heart, and he counts it worthy of long lamentation.
Prepare thyself for the bearing many adversities and manifold troubles in this wretched life; because so it shall be with thee wheresoever thou art, and so in very deed thou shalt find it, wherever thou hide thyself.
None is fit for the understanding of heavenly things, unless he hath submitted himself to bearing adversities for Christ.
And if it were thine to choose, thou oughtest rather to wish to sufferadversities for Christ, than to be refreshed with manifold consolations, for thou wouldest be more like Christ and more conformed to all saints.
Many love Jesus so long as noadversities happen to them.
We should remember that all theadversities of life are from the Lord, and that when death invades our household, and crushes the fond hopes of our hearts, it is for some wise and good purpose.
The parental legacy may soon be squandered by the child, and he be left without funds or friends; the emergencies of the future may increase beyond all anticipation; sickness and manifold adversities may soon sweep away all his inheritance.
But what else are God's blessings and adversities than a constant urging and stirring up to praise, honor, and bless God, and to call upon His Name?
Even if none of these adversities constrain us to call upon God's Name and to trust Him, yet were sin alone more than sufficient to train and to urge us on in this work.
He could not consent to make such an office as he held a sinecure, or to see the college labor through its severe adversities without greater vigor of administration than his infirmities admitted.
Did not the son of that celebrated Frenchman, surnamed Bras de Fer, write a book not only to prove that adversities are more necessary than prosperities, but that among all adversities a prison is the most pleasant and profitable?
I can, on no account, feel impatient of the adversities that I have borne in my love for Thee.
Wherefore I have been subjected to such adversities that my tongue hath been hindered from extolling Thee and from magnifying Thy glory.
May my spirit be a sacrifice to the wrongs Thou didst suffer, and my soul be a ransom for the adversities Thou didst sustain.
I am not impatient in the troubles that touch me in my love for Thee, neither in the adversities which I suffer in Thy path.
I have accepted to be tried by manifold adversities for no purpose except to regenerate all that are in Thy heaven and on Thy earth.
Adversities are incapable of estranging them from Thy Cause, and the vicissitudes of fortune can never cause them to stray from Thy pleasure.
Every hair of my head proclaimeth: “But for the adversities that befall me in Thy path, how could I ever taste the divine sweetness of Thy tenderness and love?
Manifold adversities could not fail to impress some mark of sorrow upon my heart, which is at least a guard against sanguine illusions.
They therefore declared our constitution and our self-government, which we have preserved through the adversities of ten centuries, at once and for ever abolished.
No doubt is there whatever that these tribulations will be followed by the outpourings of a supreme mercy, and these dire adversities will be succeeded by an overflowing prosperity.
It fights a brave battle against adversities while it lasts, but it does not live long.
If it receives these, it will fight successfully against adversitieswhich would be fatal to many other species.
To maintain a steady course amid all the adversities of life marks a great mind.
To maintain a steady course amid all the adversities of life, marks a great mind.
Help us in sufferings and adversities to find strength and comfort in and through His cross and passion.
Baptism is the beginning and entrance to a new life, in the course of which boundless adversities assail us through sins and suffering, our own and those of others.
Preserve us, that the wickedness and the adversities of the world may not lead us to impatience, revenge, wrath or other vices.
But the faithful Lady Anna did not seek to free herself from her plighted faith, because of the adversities of her lover.
Ah, madam,” returned Faust, “it is the common experience of inventors to meet many adversities in the outset.
For Fortune lays the Plot of our Adversities in the foundation of our Felicities, blessing us in the first quadrate, to blast us more sharply in the last.
Quarrel not rashly with Adversities not yet understood; and overlook not the Mercies often bound up in them.
Even if none of these adversities constrain us to call upon God's Name and to trust Him, yet were an alone more than sufficient to train and to urge us on in this work.
O what great troubles andadversities hast thou shewed me, and yet didst thou turn and refresh me: yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again.
For this I am very grateful to the Divine mercy, by which I am amply compensated for all the adversities and annoyances which came to me in my early years and in the flower of my youth.
Adversities he could contend with; humiliation he could not endure.
He has extended His hand over me to afflict me, but He has given me this grace of patience to bear the adversities which it has pleased Him to send me.
For I protest to you upon mine honour that I look this day for no kingdom but that of my God; whom I see preparing me for the better conclusion of all my afflictions and adversities past.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adversities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
