Top 100 Tribulation Quotes
#1. Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#2. Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.
Miguel De Molinos
#3. My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
Peter Tosh
#4. O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.
John Piper
#5. There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.
Tim LaHaye
#6. When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?
McCoy Tyner
#7. The winds of tribulation blow out some men's candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds.
Roger Stark
#8. For those who are walking in their purpose, even the great tribulation will be a minor event. There will be far more attention on what Christ is doing than on what the antichrist is doing.
Rick Joyner
#9. Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.
Matthew Henry
#10. The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#11. The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory.
Tim LaHaye
#12. Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.
C.S. Lewis
#14. Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance for the next. The more we sorrow in the present, ..the greater will be our joy in the future.
Isidore Of Seville
#15. Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma (see Alma 40:8), and God has a very good memory.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#16. A tribulation gives you the opportunity to test a truth you have always believed.
Jack Hyles
#17. Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
Thomas More
#18. It is a matter of present possession, and present enjoyment. Whatever tribulation there may be in the world, we have peace with God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
Alexander MacLaren
#20. All Saints have passed through much tribulation and temptation, and have profited thereby. And they who endured not temptation became reprobate and fell away. There is no position so sacred, no place so secret, that it is without temptations and adversities.
Thomas A Kempis
#21. Like the magnolia tree,
She bends with the wind,
Trials and tribulation may weather her,
Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms,
See her standing there, like steel,
With her roots forever buried,
Deep in her Southern soil.
Nancy B. Brewer
#22. The Bearer of Light cannot be the Son of Man without knowing the tribulation and humility of mens' sufferings.
Alejandro C. Estrada
#23. The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,
through much tribulation.
Laurence Sterne
#24. That's the point of believing in something. There's so much doubt and tribulation during your journey that you've got to hang on to something, or else you'll fall.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#25. You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it.
Murray Bowen
#26. No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
Martin Luther
#27. But may I ask, Marcus, merely out of curiosity, how you manage to get by in life - filled as our lives inevitably are with trial and tribulation - lacking religious or spiritual guidance?" "I get straight A's, sir.
Philip Roth
#28. It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart sets aside its questions when the future is too capricious. This is the irony of tribulation.
To know the world will never be so bad.
R. Scott Bakker
#29. Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Lucretius
#30. The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel, through His Servants, on how we can be prepared for these difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel?
Ezra Taft Benson
#31. 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.
Elisabeth Elliot
#32. There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
Thomas A Kempis
#33. The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.
Neal A. Maxwell
#34. Doubt not his grace because of thy tribulation, but believe that he loveth thee as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#35. 3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Anonymous
#36. The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
John Bunyan
#37. God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
C.S. Lewis
#38. Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William Arthur Ward
#39. The more you are afflicted, the more you ought to rejoice, because in the fire of tribulation the soul will become pure gold, worthy to be placed and to shine in the heavenly palace.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#40. The thought is full of comfort that He who has established the boundary lines of our lives has also determined the boundaries of our tribulation.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
Saint John Chrysostom
#42. In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
John Of The Cross
#43. One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#44. The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.
Abdu'l- Baha
#45. With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.
Miguel De Molinos
#46. If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya' and chosen elite, and is watching over you.
Al-Ghazali
#47. We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better.
David McCullough
#48. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Anonymous
#49. So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.
Neal A. Maxwell
#50. Life makes beggars out of those who have joyful hearts, taxing the living with hardship and tribulation, but the charity of companionship, the currency of shared and unmitigated love, alleviates all disconsolation.
Michelle Franklin
#52. Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming.
Gibson, Chrissy
#53. Trials come. Tribulation comes. Fires of refinement come. The purpose of refinement is to bring to light the things hidden in darkness and then remove them
Robin Bertram
#54. Faith is a principle of action. It is our willingness to believe in the Savior that unleashes His power in our lives. Faith is not a bulwark against tribulation, but an assurance that the Lord is overseeing all.
Sheri Dew
#55. Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.
Siddharth Katragadda
#56. For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.
John Sung
#57. She wondered why there were only two kinds of weather: hardship in the morning, and tribulation at night.
Colson Whitehead
#58. Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.
Martin Luther
#59. But I have one more thing to tell you, Samael. Something that is more important than what any of us want. Listen to me. The last thing Gabriel told me is that during the Tribulation, you will have a mission." ... "She wants you to kill someone. To kill the Antichrist that has risen in your stead.
Phillip W. Simpson
#61. Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
David Harsanyi
#62. Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.
S. Kelley Harrell
#64. If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will? ...
Saint Francis De Sales
#65. posttribulationist understands the rapture to occur at the end of the seven-year tribulation, shortly before Jesus returns to the earth.
John F. Hart
#66. It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17.
Russell M. Nelson
#67. In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.
John H. Vincent
#68. Christians will not be here to experience the great tribulation under the Antichrist.
Robert Jeffress
#69. The thought is full of consolation, that He who has fixed the bounds of our habitation, has also fixed the bounds of our tribulation.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#70. True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.
Sun Myung Moon
#71. 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
#72. Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Khalil Gibran
#73. The devil is about to throw some of you into prison, w that you may be tested, and for x ten days y you will have tribulation.
Anonymous
#74. It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow ... that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover
#75. Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received it in one last cup of tea. The reader may be advised to do so likewise.
Emily C.A. Snyder
#76. You do not have to be afraid. Let God guide your life. The guidance that God gives you can lead you to a safe life," said Aurora. "Humans make decisions that are contrary to God's will. If only you would choose to seek Him, He will help you find His way through your tribulation.
Summer Lee
#77. We can't always take the higher road when faced with adversity. Sometimes for the sake of restoration, peace and sharing the love of Jesus, we have to walk through the tribulation.
Chris Vonada
#78. No one in the church, in 1970, knew that the doctrine of pre-tribulation rapture had never been found in history before 1830, or that it was first promoted by an Irish minister named John Nelson Darby.
Ken Dahl Gabby Schulz
#79. If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.
C.S. Lewis
#80. Jesus is Lord of the ages and is always with his own, even when things are difficult, and will abide with us; that is our comfort. If tribulation and anxiety come upon us, Jesus is with us and leads us over into God's eternal kingdom.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#81. But more to be dreaded than this tribulation was the strange spell of sadness which the unbroken solitude cast upon the minds of stone.
O.E. Rolvaag
#82. To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#83. For 'we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.' And 'many are the afflictions of the righteous.'" "But the Lord delivereth him out of them all,
Martha Finley
#84. Evil men flourish. The righteous suffer. The Lord never promises we won't - only that He'll sustain us when the tribulation comes.
Roseanna M. White
#85. A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.
Helen Steiner Rice
#86. From this I think we can all conclude that the cow was the primary instigator of everything that followed - war, Tribulation, the End of the Worlds. Lesson One: never trust a rumiant.
Joanne Harris
#87. Your poor lungs." "We're not gonna live long enough to get cancer. The Bible says there's just seven years of Tribulation after the Rapture.
Tom Perrotta
#88. We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.
Joyce Meyer
#89. If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!
Leonard Ravenhill
#90. During the tribulation there will be a national turning of Israel to the Lord; they will walk in righteousness ... God established an everlasting covenant with Israel and it will be of everlasting duration.
Paul P. Enns
#91. He heard the sob she tried to swallow back and thought unhappily that if all the storybooks were right, that there was nobility to be found in adversity and character to be built in tribulation, then he was doing a piss-poor job of both finding and building.
Anonymous
#92. Bode Gazzer was five feet six and had never forgiven his parents for it. He wore three-inch snakeskin shitkickers and walked with a swagger that suggested not brawn so much as hemorrhoidal tribulation.
Carl Hiaasen
#93. Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.
Anthony Liccione
#95. I've learned through a series of trials and errors that the median space is actually what's missing in our daily walk.
Carlos Wallace
#96. Jesus says we are blessed when we are hated, ostracized, insulted, and ridiculed on earth, because of Him.
Billy Witt
#97. I know mine own!"--Walter Emmett Velvet, the Antichrist
A.R. Braun
#98. Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
C.S. Lewis
#99. It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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