Top 100 Trials God Quotes
#1. We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher
#2. If a man is experiencing many trials, God often gives him a vision through dreams to strengthen his spirit
Sunday Adelaja
#3. Every time we face tests and trials, God is instigating us to action
Sunday Adelaja
#4. God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.
Dwight L. Moody
#5. Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.
Elizabeth George
#6. God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.
Susan L. Taylor
#7. When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie,
My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;
The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.
John Rippon
#8. Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.
T. B. Joshua
#9. But how good God is! How well He fits our trials to our strength!
John Beevers
#10. We cannot be judge and jury, the hardest thing is to understand the unknown and in knowing the hidden all things are revealed giving truth.
God is watcher during all moments and at the end the real Judge.
Zarina Bibi
#11. Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.
Paul Gitwaza
#12. Keith: Sometimes God grants us sustenance. But God also grants us deliverance. It's only a matter of time.
K. Howard Joslin
#13. The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life.
Henry B. Eyring
#14. When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.
W. A. Criswell
#15. When looking at your reserve when going through trials and you see a glass over half empty, remember to look at the one who gives the water. Our focus is what is important, not our struggle.
Gail Davis
#16. Ann: What if there is no God? What if the Bible isn't true?
K. Howard Joslin
#17. God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#18. Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#20. The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.
John Piper
#21. Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.
Charles R. Swindoll
#22. Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen our trust in him so that our faith will not fail. Our trials keep us trusting; they burn away our self confidence and drive us to our Savior.
Edmund Clowney
#23. Voice your position in God and you will be surrounded by all the
resources of God in the time of trial.
Smith Wigglesworth
#24. Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
Joyce Meyer
#25. I was there when God was put on trial ... At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.
Elie Wiesel
#26. Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ...
Muse
#27. ... Faith forged in the furnace of trials and tears is marked by trust and testimony.
Only God can count the sacrifice; only God can measure the sorrow; only God can know the hearts of those who serve Him.
Thomas S. Monson
#28. After many trials the God and his love end happily - tho' not all remember this conclusion - which is less memorable than the moment when everything was lost. Happy endings are all alike; disasters may be unique.
John Crowley
#29. The promises of eternal life stored up in our heart through the work of the Holy Spirit empower us to walk through the most difficult of life's trials and tragedies and glorify God in the process.
Anonymous
#30. The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him.
Katherine Howe
#31. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing (James 1:2-4).
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Charles F. Stanley
#32. If we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.
George Muller
#33. God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed ...
-Judge Frank Howell Seay
John Grisham
#34. Circumstances that weigh you down and obstacles that block your path are God's way of building spiritual muscle. Shortcuts and escape routes won't build the stamina you'll need to complete the course.
Deb Brammer
#35. That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God's goodness.
K. Howard Joslin
#36. Noah presses upon my back to bend me double in preparation for the order. He tosses aside my clogs in order to bind left thumb to right toe, then right thumb to left toe in the form of the holy cross. It has always seemed to me a forgiving God would not condone such abuse of the crucifix.
Janet Graber
#37. Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.
Charles Spurgeon
#38. Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.
Jerry Bridges
#39. God's blessing is like a coin that has two sides, favor and trials.
Sunday Adelaja
#40. Paul was focusing on what was happening in him, not to him. Likewise, we can be sure that when something is happening to us, God is doing something in us--something that will shape us for eternity.
Chris Hodges
#41. The wilderness is a place of trials and temptations where everyone is prepared and trained to fulfill God's calling
Sunday Adelaja
#42. God has a reason for not giving us the quick fix: He wants us to be conformed to His image and He uses trials to help us grow. Weight loss is one of those trials. It's not fun, but God can do great things in our lives if we persevere and keep going to Him for help.
Barb Raveling
#43. Do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.
Vincent De Paul
#44. By bravely enduring our trials, we learn humility, compassion for others, and a great reliance on God. We also learn that our happiness and progress depend much less upon what challenges life may bring and infinitely more on how we face and overcome those challenges.
Lloyd D. Newell
#45. I had an unconscious, vague sort of understanding that God loved me, but the love of God is meant to be a powerful force in our lives, one that will take us through even the most difficult trials into victory.
Joyce Meyer
#46. I trust God to carry me no matter the outcome. I trust that he has led us here and that he will either fulfill my hopes or repair my broken heart.
Kelsey
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. God's grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#51. 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
#52. 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.
Alistair Begg
#53. I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.
K. Howard Joslin
#54. When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.
Charles Spurgeon
#55. If you're facing a season of trials, don't allow the enemy to have a field day by putting negative thoughts in your mind. Let go of stinking thinking. Instead of turning away from God in anger or confusion, run into His loving arms where He will comfort you.
Dana Arcuri
#56. God promises no easy life or days without troubles, trials, difficulties, and temptations. He never promises that life will be perfect. He does not call His children to a playground, but to a battleground.
Billy Graham
#57. I will use this period of spiritual training in my life to focus on the greatness of my God instead of the impossibility of my circumstances.
John Bevere
#58. Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their family would like to have in case of an emergency ... (and) God will sustain us through our trials.
James E. Faust
#59. God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
Shannon L. Alder
#60. God has and always will remain faithful to His word. Even when my doubts and fears threaten to drown me as I thrash blindly against my Rescuer, He carries me to the other side. When fiery circumstances take my breath away, He hides me in the shelter of His wings.
Katherine J. Walden
#61. Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation.
K. Howard Joslin
#62. God is in control. He may not take away trials or make detours for us, but He strengthens us through them.
Billy Graham
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. Sometimes life takes you into a dark place where you feel it's impossible to breathe. You think you've been buried, but don't give up, because if truth be told, you've actually been planted.
Karen Gibbs
#68. God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.
Edward Bouverie Pusey
#69. Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
John Vianney
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#74. Your trial is temporary, but God's Love is permanent.
Bo Sanchez
#75. Ann: How does God's character fit into things that seem totally against his character?
K. Howard Joslin
#76. Many of the mysteries of God - the heartaches, trials, disappointments, tragedies, and the silence of God in the midst of suffering - will be revealed in heaven.
Billy Graham
#77. God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.
Christine Caine
#78. hardships and trials do not come by accident, and God's purpose never ruins anything that wasn't supposed to be ruined.
Steven Stiles
#79. Is it possible that the reason you feel as if God doesn't see you or your problems or care about your stress is because you are focused on you, instead of God?
Tracie Miles
#80. Instead of suffering fruitlessly through your trials, be sure to keep your eyes fixed on your heavenly Father who has good purposes in all you experience. Check yourself for sin that has not been dealt with. Lean on the grace and goodness of God, and you will find relief.
Joe Thorn
#82. God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#83. We're all given terrible trials sometimes, things that we think will break our spirit and kill us, and they make us stronger in the end. They seem like the cruelest blows, but in a funny way they're like compliments from God.
Danielle Steel
#84. We don't always know why God allows trials. We do know He wants us to trust Him.
Jill Eileen Smith
#85. Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
Voltaire
#86. In other words, God Himself will prepare the man to meet these trials. Joseph found himself in this situation
Sunday Adelaja
#87. When one is down due to trials on earth evil sees an opening to attack. You with God are more powerful than satan ~ every time.
Paula Dickerson
#88. If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.
Matthew Henry
#89. If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.
Charles R. Swindoll
#90. Ann: If we know God, we do not need to know why He allows us to experience what we do.
K. Howard Joslin
#91. In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed ... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.
Jerry Bridges
#92. Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.
Shannon L. Alder
#93. Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God.
Elaine A. Cannon
#94. God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.
John Piper
#95. Are you facing a trial today? Perhaps fog is hiding the path of life from you and you don't know which way to go. God gives you the answer for trials - stay close to Him. Allow Him to guide you through the stormy path, and trust His Word for comfort and guidance.
Paul Chappell
#96. God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.
K. Howard Joslin
#97. A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.
Elizabeth George
#98. God has blessed me to be where I'm at today. All the trials and tribulations I faced throughout my career and life. Look at where I'm at now, I'm the all-time Packers leading receiver of that franchise. That tells you a lot.
Donald Driver
#99. Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.
Al Green
#100. Don't ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.
K. Howard Joslin
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