Clarence Clemons Quotes

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

God doesn't give you more than you can handle.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

Great faith must have great trials.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

Tough times teach trust.

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

My faith was tested like Job. That's the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don't mean things not gonna happen to you.

I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter.

It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.