Trials Quotes

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.

I know that every trial requires fairness and truth. Any trial that abandons the pursuit of truth cannot be considered fair or just.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

In Los Angeles, the jury in the Reginald Denny Beating trial, after much thinking, concludes, that Person A is not necessarily trying to kill Person B just because Person A happens to very deliberately bash Person B's skull in with a brick. The verdict is applauded by scientists at the Tobacco Institute.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.

Fiery trials make golden Christians.

Trials teach us what we are.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are...

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.