Quotes About Trials

Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.

Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!

But our trials need not be spiritually fatal. They need not take us from our covenants or from the household of God.

The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

What punishments of God are not gifts?

Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

This life is the only opportunity we will have to worship God in the midst of trials and tests. Heaven will be perfect.

Good Friday was the worst Friday until Sunday.

The question is not why good people have trials, but how shall good people respond when they are tried?

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Happiness does not mean being free from problems and trials, but finding purpose in problems and trials can result in abundant happiness.