Adversity | Courage | Success | Suffering | Trial

OVERCOMING ADVERSITY
One other quote from Engstrom’s book he attributes to Dr. F. Carlton Booth (of Fuller Seminary and World Vision): Some of the world’s greatest men and women have been saddled with disabilities and adversities but have managed to overcome them. Cripple him, and you have a Sir Walter Scott. Lock him in a prison cell, and you have a John Bunyan. Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have a George Washington. Raise him in abject poverty, and you have an Abraham Lincoln. Subject him to bitter religious prejudice, and you have a Disraeli. Strike him down with infantile paralysis, and he becomes a Franklin D. Roosevelt. Burn him so severly in a schoolhouse fire that the doctors say he will never walk again, and you have a Glenn Cunningham, who set the world’s record in 1934 for running a mile in 4 minutes and 6.7 seconds. Deafen a genius composer, and you have a Ludwig van Beethoven. Have…

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