Found 18 Results for: adversity

  • Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and riches, come of the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 14)

  • A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. (Ecclesiasticus 12, 8)

  • In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart. (Ecclesiasticus 12, 9)

  • If adversity come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first; and though he pretend to help thee, yet shall he undermine thee. (Ecclesiasticus 12, 17)

  • And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: (Isaiah 30, 20)

  • Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. (Hebrews 13, 3)


“Se você não entrega seu coração a Deus, o que lhe entrega?” “Você deve seguir outra estrada. Tire de seu coração todas as paixões deste mundo, humilhe-se na poeira e reze! Dessa forma, certamente você encontrará Deus, que lhe dará paz e serenidade nesta vida e a eterna beatitude na próxima.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina