662 Quotes About Hard-times

Hard times refine us like gold.

Hard times prepares the willing soul for define destiny.

In hard times, hang on hope.

I felt it, too: the dread, the weight of the horrors we'd seen, which replayed themselves in an endless, lurid loop in my mind. But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn't make bad things worse anymore than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

...anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.

endure all always

It was easy to believe when everything was good. But when bad things happened, doubt sowed its seed in fertile soil and burrowed deep. It was my duty to root it out.

The weak have been swept away.That's the flaw in Vosch's master plan: If you don't kill all of us at once, those who remain will not be the weak.It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength.Flood, fires, earthquakes, disease, starvation, betrayal, isolation, murder.What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us.

We don't get to pick the age we will live in, and we don't get to choose all the struggles we will face. Faithfulness is ours to choose; the shape of faithfulness is God's to determine.