Top 35 Quotes About Ordeals
#1. They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave unnaturally. In nature animals flee cold and seek warmth and comfort. But Bobo naturalists flee comfort and seek cold and deprivation.
David Brooks
#2. All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?
Eliphas Levi
#3. Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life
an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.
Mary Tyler Moore
#4. Unlike Champions, Godmothers don't have to keep undergoing ridiculous ordeals every time one turns around. Our idea of besting a dragon is not to chop it into bits, but to get it to sit down to tea.
Mercedes Lackey
#5. discriminate between the principles that improve the quality of prose and the superstitions, fetishes, shibboleths, and initiation ordeals that have been passed down in the traditions of usage. The
Steven Pinker
#6. Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world of ill-health do you recognize its quiet, massive presence, its brooding permanence.
William Boyd
#7. There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink Ayahuasca. It is in a way the ultimate adventure.
Graham Hancock
#8. There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.
Felix Adler
#9. In life there are great ordeals, but as an individual you must know that success is a must.
Alexander Boyd
#10. But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
Antonin Artaud
#11. Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#12. A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.
Tahir Shah
#13. Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys.
Ramona Koval
#14. But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It can only hasten processes which are already in existence, and usually this just means that it degrades. You see, in hell one lacks the energy for any good change. This indeed is the meaning of hell.
Iris Murdoch
#15. The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life ... and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.
Jill Paton Walsh
#16. Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy?
Randy Alcorn
#17. Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close.
Margery Allingham
#18. At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
Huston Smith
#19. Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
Amartya Sen
#20. Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.
Gretel Ehrlich
#21. My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.
Chris Bohjalian
#22. Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.
Sophocles
#24. Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.
The Mother
#25. Rabbit, I am alive. I breathe, and I move, so I am alive. Is that clear? Whatever ordeals are yet to come, I am alive.
Gerard Reve
#26. A boy who could make his mother feel special inspite of his own ordeals is the boon from God in lieu of some good deed.
Adhish Mazumder
#27. Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"
Martin Luther King Jr.
#28. I think this is something we all can relate to: experiences that may start out as good ideas until suddenly, they become ordeals, no longer adventures, no matter the attitude.
Tania Aebi
#29. The ordeals of others ...
prepare us, and
later become the compass ...
in our time of ordeal.
John-Talmage Mathis
#30. As ordeals and duels gave way to confession as a proof of guilt, judicial torture was actually increasing in France.
Eric Jager
#31. We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.
Alexander Herzen
#32. Let your strength from the past
provide proof of your abilities to ...
conquer the difficulties of the present.
John-Talmage Mathis
#33. The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?
Lillian Smith
#34. Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.
Bruce Fordyce
#35. The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
Victor Hugo
