It is the moment when everything is put to the test. Whether it is a hearing in a courtroom where everyone awaits justice. Or a harsh test imposed by life itself on the human spirit.
Trials are a true revealer of principles. They show the deepest truths. And reveal the mettle of people in the face of pressure. They are not endings but often new beginnings for profound understanding. Here you will find words from those who faced these pivotal moments.
āIn 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.ā
āTrials 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 ā who never weep for the sorrows of others ā very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.ā
āThis 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 benisonā
