Quotes About Trials

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

Through trial with death, you discover your power. Through trial, you shed your mortal flesh, layer after layer, until you become who you are supposed to be.

God never wastes an experience or trial in our lives. Good or bad, easy or painful, he is able to use everything in our lives to grow us and make us more like him.

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

The first collection which he published, intituled PAMELA, exhibited the beauty and superiority of virtue in an innocent and unpolished mind, with the reward which often, even in this life, a protecting Providence bestows on goodness. A young woman of low degree, relating to her honest parents the severe trials she met with from a master who ought to have been the protector, not the assailer of her honour, shews the character of a libertine in its truly contemptible light.

Noi nu ÅŸtim, în zilele noastre bune ce nenorocire ne preg?teÅŸte destinul tocmai acum: boal?, prigoan?, s?r?cie, mutilare, orbire, nebunie, moarte ÅŸ.a.m.d.

Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days.

The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood.

It is the lumps and trials That tell us whether we shall be known And whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.

But how good God is! How well He fits our trials to our strength!

Trials in this life will expose what is in your heart—whether the offense is toward God or others. Tests either make you bitter toward God and your peers or stronger. If you pass the test, your roots will shoot down deeper, stabilizing you and your future. If you fail, you become offended, which can lead to defilement with bitterness.

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are not sign that God hath forsaken you, but are sent to try you, whether you will call to mind that which heretofore you have received of his goodness, and live upon him in your distresses.

A great horror and darkness fell upon Christian.

The valley of Humiliation.

Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

Our hope is that the Lord will intervene in our lives, but if not, we will discover whether our faith is real, or only something we hold onto when it appears to be working for our benefit.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

O grant, that in the trials by which we must be daily exercised, we may raise upwards our minds to thee, and never cease to think that thou art near us;

After many trials the God and his love end happily—tho' not all remember this conclusion—which is less memorable than the moment when everything was lost. Happy endings are all alike; disasters may be unique.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

Jesus always interpreted hardship in light of the end of the story, and at the end of the story we will be without shame.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.