Quotes About Trials

Trials happen for a reason, it's either you give up or stand up and formulate a solution.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Whatever your trials, remind yourself that you are a spirit and are capable of changing your destiny.

Over the years, I've had torrid luck with things going wrong.

It has not been easy for me

The cross sometimes means the afflictions and trials which believers in Christ have to go through if they follow Christ faithfully for their religion's sake.

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies?

The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.

In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.

The joy of trials is rarely found in the circumstances of our difficulties. Rather, it is found when we stop fighting against what God is doing and seek his purposes and priorities, which always without exception are designed for our welfare. Whatever the difficulty—even one brought about by our sin—we can leave the outcome in God's hands (p. 76).

In this life, there will be trials," Blessing murmured. "If we love, we suffer not only our own trials but those of our beloved.

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was.

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. (James 1:2–4)

My life certainly didn't change overnight. I experienced a waiting period, a time of growth, development, and perseverance as God prepared me. Lessons on patience, trust, surrender, and learning to take hold all preceded my stepping out. But even in this seemingly unimportant time of pruning and trials, God was preparing me for the next step.

Heartbreaking seasons can certainly grow me but were never meant to define me.

No matter how difficult the trail … we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven.

The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly. They're disaster-prone. Something goes wrong. The sky starts falling on their head. And you can't reverse the process.

The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly. They're disaster-prone.

It had been tested extensively in clinical trials in third-world countries;

Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.

Girls, murder trials, secret witnesses. Life was suddenly very complicated.

God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while those who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.