Quotes About Trials

Far from being amicable, the numbers seem to turn their backs on each other, and I couldn't find a pair with even the most tenuous connection, let alone this wonderfully intimate one. The Professor was right. My birthday and his watch had overcome great trials and tribulations to meet each other in the vast sea of numbers.

Being the best trial lawyer alone does not always win the case. What wins cases is hard work and preparation from the entire team. In each of the trials in which I have been involved, we won in large part because our team was better prepared, had a better strategy and trial theme, and knew the facts on our feet better than the other side."

Worobey's work directly refuted the OPV hypothesis. If HIV-1 existed in humans as early as 1908, then obviously it hadn't been introduced via vaccine trials beginning in 1958.

Everyone has adventures in their lives. Some good ones, some bad ones.

Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.

Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times.

If you have shed a thousand tears, expect a thousand blessings.

The willfully ignorant are wont to follow this inclination that leads back to the animal they were but can no longer be, because it allows escape from the trials of self-knowledge and the demands of discrimination. Not wanting to know is the most powerful and destructive of forces, ultimately resulting in that self-indulgent cowardice that alone makes it possible for people to allow and participate in all the injustices and crimes of the world.

It was said that trials were what made the victory so sweet, but Herbert never bought that. From where he sat, he'd settle for having the victories come a little easier now and then. . . .

Christ is sufficient. We do not need support groups for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

There is, in fact, no redemptive work done anywhere without suffering.

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

Faith is not a hothouse plant that must be shielded from wind and rain, so delicate that it has to be protected, but it's like the sturdy oak which becomes stronger with every wind that blows upon it. An easy time weakens faith, while strong trials strengthen it.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.

As you abide in Christ, you will have strength for today's trials as well as for all tomorrow's challenges.

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials. James 1:2

Count it all joy…when you fall into various trials (JAMES 1:2).

Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.

Well, trials are the portion of mankind, and gardeners have their share, and in any case it is better to be tried by plants than persons, seeing that with plants you know that it is you who are in the wrong, and with persons it is always the other way about—and who is there among us who has not felt the pangs of injured innocence, and known them to be grievous?

Years later, thinking about this conversation, I will remember, as somebody very sagely said during the patricide trials of the Menendez brothers: Anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame .

he kept himself and his forces well in hand the whole evening, compelling an accumulative reserve of control by that nameless inward process of gradually putting all the emotions away and turning the key upon them—a process difficult to describe, but wonderfully effective, as all men who have lived through severe trials of the inner man well understand.

I feel that trials do not prepare us for what's to come as much as they reveal what we've done with our lives up to this point.

We mustn't allow our circumstances and disappointments to become the excuse for the choices we make in life. God is greater than all of that, and He can bring beauty out of ashes. Our trials come, Augustine said, "to prove us and to improve us.