Quotes About Trials

This was how it was done; you bare your belly to a great beast and endure trials and it all works itself out. There is a treasure or a sword. Or a woman. And that thing is yours not because you defeated anything, or because your flesh was hard and unyielding, but because you were worthy of it, worthy all along.

This was how it was done: you bare your belly to a great beast and endure trials and it all works itself out. There is a treasure or a sword. Or a woman. And that thing is yours not because you defeated anything, or because your flesh was hard and unyielding, but because you were worthy of it, worthy all along. The trials and the beast were just a way of telling the world you wanted it, and the world asking in her hard way, hard as bones and hollow mountains, if you really and truly did.

Cory said abruptly: 'Enough of these trials and tests; clearly you all are competent at slitting throats and drowning old women. Whether you can achieve more strenuous acts remains to be seen. Now then: seat yourselves, and give me all your attention, and I will tell you what I expect of you. Landlord, bring us ale, then step from the room, as we wish to make private conversation.

James A. Connor

Though a man without money is poor, a man with nothing but money is still poorer. Worldly gifts cannot bear up the spirits from fainting and sinking when trials and troubles come, any more than headache can be cured by a golden crown or toothache by a chain of pearls.

When the sting of anguish penetrates the heart of human love; when gloom and loneliness and desertion cloud the soul of friendship and trust, then it is that the heart turns toward the sheltering love of the Eternal, and finds rest in its silent peace. And whosoever comes to this Love is not turned away comfortless, is not pierced with anguish nor surrounded with gloom; and is never deserted in the dark hour of trial.

Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time.

The underdog is a person that's at risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean, that was my life.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Everybody has a right to their own troubles.

Takes long, Stings hard, Benefit's large.That's your experience in life. :)

Takes long, Stings hard, Benefit's large.And that's your experience in life :)

In life, some of the things we are afraid of are the same things that are use to test our ability to stand trials

Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

For at times it happens that some trifle will cause as much suffering to one as a great trial will to another; little things can bring much distress to persons who have sensitive natures. If you are not like them, do not fail to be compassionate.

Any unrest and any strife can be borne, as I have already said, if we find peace where we live; but if we would have rest from the thousand trials which afflict us in the world and the Lord is pleased to prepare such rest for us, and yet the cause of the trouble is in ourselves, the result cannot but be very painful, indeed almost unbearable.