Quotes About Trials

O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials.

Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

Life lessons are well-learned through trails.

Be joyful in tribulations.

The sum of all your mistakes are equal to your success

the severe pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy

the sever pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy

If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.

The greatest triumph is victory over all trials.

God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He doesn't give us the power to overcome.

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the fellowship of His sufferings.

William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.

Mercies should draw, afflictions drive.

the Christian who seems to be so overmatched, is yet so unconquerable, II Cor. 12:9; James 5:11.

The apostle would have them go before the wind, and be carried with a full gale to heaven, which then is done when the soul, like a sail spread to the wind, is so filled with the truth and goodness of the promise, that it swells into an assured hope of what is promised, and rejoiceth in a certain expectation of what it shall have when it comes to the shore of eternity, though it be now tossed and weather-beaten with a thousand temptations and trials in its passage thither.

You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave -- now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks -- tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.

It was silly to suppose that trials only hardened men, automatically making them wise. He knew many who were stupid, arrogant, and mean, in spite of having suffered.

Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!