Top 100 Quotes About Trials
#1. FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#2. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#3. Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often far more mental trials than those of nonbelief. It is quite difficult to ascertain the wishes of an invisible being.
Mark Thomas
#4. The trials of our lives make us strong, determined to succeed, to be different, both in body and in spirit.
J.C. Reed
#5. Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity.
Carlos Wallace
#6. We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.
Vincent Bugliosi
#7. I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.
Jeffrey Toobin
#8. Come ye trials and challanges; come life's big waves, for I am ready?
Mas Oyama
#9. I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality
> immortal mistakes.
Esther Dyson
#10. With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.
Joel Miller
#11. Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow locomotion. In our Olympic trials, we celebrate speeds that would be an embarrassment to a bird or a dog or another animal.
Neal Barnard
#12. The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.
William Matthews
#13. By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
Edmund Morgan
#14. Going through life has its struggles, but not sharing the trials in a way that engages great communication, is a loss of the physical realities through our everyday senses.
Daniel B. Royer
#16. The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.
Evander Holyfield
#17. I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts.
John Bevere
#18. But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.
Juliet Marillier
#19. When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.
William Shenstone
#20. If God has entrusted us with suffering, let us set our hearts and minds to work together with Him to enable Him to bring out of our trials all the glory He longs us to know.
Margaret Clarkson
#21. When you live to lift the burdens of others, your own burdens become lighter. You are able to face your own trials with greater acceptance, a more understanding heart, and deeper gratitude for what you have rather than pining for what you lack.
David S. Baxter
#22. Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows, who never weep for the sorrows of others very seldom have any of their own. Great hearts could be made only by great troubles.
Charles Spurgeon
#23. Oh, there at last, life's trials past, / We'll meet our loved ones more, / Whose feet have trod the path to God,
/ Not lost, but gone before.
Caroline Norton
#24. We are not required to go through [Jesus'] trials, but we are required to be willing to go through them. To prove that we are willing to do so, we must go through our own trials and remain faithful.
Royden G. Derrick
#26. Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care
Pope Francis
#27. It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
Oswald Chambers
#28. Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.
Saint Augustine
#29. As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.'
James B. Martino
#31. God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.
Edward Bouverie Pusey
#32. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
Lydia M. Child
#33. Adversity helps to develop a depth of character that comes in no other way. Our loving Heavenly Father has set us in a world filled with challenges and trials so that we, through opposition, can learn wisdom, become stronger, and experience joy.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#34. Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development thanks to his hardships and trials.These are what prepare man for the Coming of Love.
Peter Deunov
#35. It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.
Ryan Hall
#36. Boy-meets-girl has always been an irreducible convention that occurs early in the telling, to be followed by the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of love.
Robert McKee
#37. Amongst the many trials to which the human mind is subjected, that of holding intercourse, real or imaginary, with the world of spirits: of finding itself alone with a being terrific and awful, whose nature and power are unknown, has been justly considered the most severe.
Joanna Baillie
#39. Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.
Ron Wyden
#40. It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.
Bernie Mac
#41. Think about people in your own life who you have envied for one reason or another. It may surprise you to know that they do not see themselves the way that you do. Maybe they are all smiles on the outside but have personal struggles and trials that you would never guess from first glance.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#43. After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.
Adoniram Judson
#44. This is what I would like to hold on to. Please help me memorize this feeling of contentment and help me always support it. I'm putting this happiness in a bank somewhere, not merely FDIC protected but guarded by my four spirit brothers, held there as insurance against future trials in life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#45. True love is born of time and trials, and it is rarely caught up in feelings.
K. B. Hoyle
#46. Whatever your trials, remind yourself that you are a spirit and are capable of changing your destiny.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
#47. True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
#48. But this is wishful thinking: as the Polis Governor of Bulikov, the capital city of the Continent, it is her duty to preside over all trials,
Robert Jackson Bennett
#49. Trials aren't meant to harm us but to make us more Christlike.
Andrea Boeshaar
#50. Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
Therese Of Lisieux
#51. I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.
Kurt Loder
#52. Let not our trials of this day be our final sentence. For our difficulties of today is definitely shared by another in our world. Therefore, be encouraged and don't give up because tomorrow a new dawn will surely shine, and once we have life we have the most precious gift-Genevieve Sarpong.
Genevieve Sarpong
#53. I think it's important for each of us to examine the reasons why we have survived our individual challenges, obstacles, and trials. It's not always easy to come to terms with the fact that God always has a greater purpose for us than we can have for ourselves.
Stu Jones
#54. He's filled with a sense of childish release, the old feeling that because you are sick, all your trials and obligations have been suspended.
Michael Cunningham
#55. A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
Henry Markram
#56. Now, we struggle, brothers and sisters, and we strive. We have our trials and our tribulations but we are blessed. We go to bed, praise Jesus, and we rise again in the morning. And if that's not a blessing, I don't know what is.
Ayana Mathis
#57. Nobody is good or bad. They are either strong or weak. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations. Weak people, many a times, do not even realise how low they have fallen.
Amish Tripathi
#58. In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.
Jules Verne
#59. I've gone through my trials and tribulations, and sure, it's gotten bumpy and all that, but I'm here. OK?
Tracy Morgan
#60. God alone knows exactly what you and I must endure in order to form His character in us. It is in our trials that God refines us and removes our impurities. Like refined gold, when we pass through our trials, people will see His perfect reflection in us.
Wendy Blight
#61. I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.
Missy Franklin
#62. For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced.
Evan Osnos
#63. I know a lot of us feel like that. We come to a place where we're walking through the fires and trials of life, and we don't know where to turn. What we need is a fresh start. We need our story to go in a new direction. What we need is a comeback of our own.
Louie Giglio
#64. Pause and remember: It is through our deepest trials and life hardships that we are given the greatest opportunity to find the person we have been looking for our whole life - our authentic beautiful self.
Jenni Young
#66. We cannot learn patience by reading a book or hearing a lecture. The only way we can learn patience is by going through the trials that God assigns to us. The trials of life are the tools God uses to mature us, to build our faith, and to get us to trust the Spirit and not the flesh.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#67. Trials are a part of life, but there is value in sometimes experiencing adversity which will test (and so strengthen) our faith and also build an understanding of God and ourselves.
Eric Ives
#68. Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
Tammy Bruce
#69. Trials for lawyers are like bills. It seems that you finish paying one, and feel that feeling of relief, then it's time to pay it again.
Kenneth Eade
#70. For very long periods I am really patient, and then out breaks my bad temper. It is not so difficult to bear great trials, but these little buzzing mosquitos are so trying.
Robert Alexander
#71. What are trials in life but fire? They shape and mold.
Amelia Hutchins
#72. For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
William Penn
#73. The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#74. Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Charles Spurgeon
#75. He reached down from heaven and took me and drew me out of my great trials. He rescued me from deep waters.
Anonymous
#76. The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.
Charles Spurgeon
#77. dozens of groups of seven to sit on the dozens of trials that would take place, each group composed, as decreed by Terial himself, of the Seven: a mother, a merchant, a pauper, a prelate, a soldier, a son, and a dying man.
Brian Staveley
#78. If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
Alan Thicke
#79. Trials and difficulties may assail the life of a believer, but they also have the ability to remold his character and banish from his life those impurities which might impair growth and service.
Billy Graham
#80. Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.
Wes Fesler
#81. It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.
Charles Spurgeon
#82. keeping our focus on God instead of the world around us will enable us to endure the trials of life much better than if we get distracted from God." "Hmm, a good topic." She gave him a small smile. "It kind of fits our situation,
E.A. West
#83. God is in control. He may not take away trials or make detours for us, but He strengthens us through them.
Billy Graham
#84. The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#85. The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
Umera Ahmad
#86. I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.
Tera Van Beilen
#87. When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.
Anthony Fauci
#88. be skeptical of any nutritional claims; they are unlikely to be from randomized trials and may soon be proved wrong.
Vinayak K. Prasad
#89. You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.
Stephen Breyer
#90. The vast majority of criminal cases are settled by plea bargaining. Only the rare civil case goes to trial, not least because most judges now see "case management" rather than presiding over trials as their primary responsibility. Late
Mark Tushnet
#91. Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#92. Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life's trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos.
Charles R. Swindoll
#93. Any creature, even one as unassuming as a fish, can become something mighty. When they courageously endure their trials, they meet their destiny.
Colleen Houck
#94. God does not promise us that life will be free of sorrow and difficult trials, but He does promise us He will always be there to guide us through...wrapped in His arms of love.
Kimberly McCormick
#95. How liberating it must be to stop evading, questioning, or complaining about your trials and start embracing them as opportunities to draw closer to God, to realize that even if Jesus is all you have, He is enough
Colleen Carroll Campbell
#96. On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.
Morgan Griffith
#97. His trials were trench warfare.
Anonymous
#98. God's grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#99. The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
Allyson Felix
#100. Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to enlarge you.
Warren W. Wiersbe
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