Adversity Quote by Elton Trueblood Download Open image ““Lincoln matured best in sorrow.”” — Elton Trueblood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Grief Sorrow Trials
“Lincoln’s most prominent feature—the perpetual look of sadness. He’d been to the battle fields, he’d read the prison reports. No wonder he was so… — Katherine Lowry Logan Copy Share Image
“As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had “done nothing to make any human being remember that he… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“And as soon as he was gone, I saw beyond, to where Lincoln stood, exactly where I'd seen him last, when I'd begged him… — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
“Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ambition to establish a reputation worthy of the esteem of his fellows so that his story could be told after his death had… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they… — Henry Ketcham Copy Share Image
“Lincoln said that “folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Lincoln himself once said, “The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves.”… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
“Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.” — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“We are in the monsoons and we must weather it out - the way of wisdom is, instead of pining for calmer days, to… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what the moral… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God's will that… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“Contradiction is the perfect evidence, he (Lincoln) thought, of human fallibility.” — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“There are many instances in history of people who allow their skepticism to cut the nerve of moral effort, and there are numerous people,… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“He (Lincoln) saw how intellectually and spiritually impoverished a person would be if he was limited to his own personal resources. The Bible, he… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.” — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“From the prophets of Israel Lincoln had learned the note will idea that there can be serving people, with responsibility to the entire "family… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.” — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“Always, in Lincoln's mature theology, there is paradox. There is starting this, yet there is also tenderness; there is melancholy, yet there is also… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
