Quotes About Test

Life is a test. It is only a test--meaning that's all it is. Nothing more, but nothing less. It is a test of our convictions and priorities, our faith and faithfulness, our patience and resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. It is a test to determine if we want to be part of the kingdom of God more than we want anything else.

While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups and downs of mortality alone, we're doing it all wrong. Mortality is a test, but it is an open book test. We have access not only to the divine text but to Him who authored it.

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Is this Morgan's game, or the Merlin's test?

She understood that she was being tested, but she did not know the nature of the test.

It was the first time in her life that she had put her faith in God's protection to the test, and it had not failed her.

When we are faced with a challenge, it is very easy to be mad or upset. But when we have passed our great test, we are then given opportunities to reach out to other people. We are able to effect change in a way that otherwise we would not be able to.

when we have passed our great test, we are then given opportunities to reach out to other people. We are able to effect change in a way that otherwise we wouldn't have been able to.

Anyone who failed to apply the test of reasoned logic to the assertions of religious dogma was denying his own nature, Berengar said, "for it is by his reason that man resembles God.

While my approach has been academic, the truths I present here for the layperson, which are distilled from analyzing the writings of Isaiah, are far from academic—I consider them life giving. I invite you, the reader, to put them to the test, to see if they are not enlightening, empowering, and freeing to your spirit for that flight to heaven which God has invited every one of us to make.

Every Islamic value I had been taught instructed me to put myself last. Life on earth is a test, and if you manage to put yourself last in this life, you are serving Allah; your place will be first in the Hereafter. The more deeply you submit your will, the more virtuous that makes you.

Fiecare valoare islamica ce mi se insuflase ma invatase ca eu sa fiu ultima in lista prioritatilor. Viata pe pamant este un test si, daca reusesti sa nu-ti acorzi importanta in viata asta, il servesti pe Allah; si astfel vei avea intaietate in viata de apoi. Cu cat iti suprimai mai mult dorintele, cu atat mai virtuos deveneai. Dar Johanna, Ellen si toti ceilalti din Olanda pareau sa creada ca era firesc sa-ti cauti fericirea pe pamant, aici si acum.

You obey, and you serve Allah—that is the test. If you submit to God's will on earth, you will attain bliss in the Hereafter. The rule is strict and pure. My doubts severely diminished my chances for eternal bliss, but I found that I couldn't ignore them. I had to resolve this. *

It's very rare that you get a chance to play in a Test and that's what makes it so special and prestigious.

I always loved Test cricket, and I rate it very highly.

Driving in the rain, in real life, separates the men from the boys, I'd say.

The rule that science is the only way to know something is itself unscientific; it cannot be tested. So the claim that only science can demonstrate truth actually flunks its own test, since it cannot validate itself!

'Humans' would definitely score really well on the Bechdel test - the one that tracks how well represented women are in drama.

Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.

If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.

I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.

The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.