Trials Quotes

[Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.

~ Kristen Heitzmann

Though we faced many trails, we do not lose hope. We are living by faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility.

~ Nikola Tesla

There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't create us to be defeated.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle---Gods.

~ Shannon L. Alder

One more action to transform your dreams, one more passion to reform your brand; give one more trial and you’ll never regret your willingness to hold on!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Loving what you do doesn’t mean you are never going to be faced with trials. It rather means, you are highly qualified to persist, persevere and endure till the end because you are enthusiastic about seeing the joyous end.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In the greatest trial, we behold the greatness of our great God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.

~ Mandy Hale

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

~ Shannon L. Alder

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

~ Elizabeth George

How do we handle feelings? What significance should we attach to them? If we want to keep our feelings from deceiving and defeating us, we must make some tough choices in our lives. We must trust God to keep our feelings under His control. We must make a choice to rejoice, and we must do it constantly. Feelings go where our thoughts and choices take them. So we can have confidence that God will use our choice and release to us the feelings that we need.

~ George Foster

Feelings are involuntary reactions, so God does not say, Feel joy. He says, Rejoice! It's a choice.

~ George Foster

...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

~ Brittany Hawes

When we are needy Christ does His best work, but be warned. Someone, maybe even some well-meaning soul, is going to tell you, “Don’t worry. God will never give you more than you can handle.”I double-dog-dare you to find that in the scriptures. The closest you can come is found in 1 Corinthians 10:13: “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”This talks about an escape from temptation; it does not say that you will not be faced with more than you can handle. The mother whose baby is born and dies, the father who loses his eyesight in a construction accident and can no longer provide for his family, the child who hurries home from school every day hoping that his mother hasn’t yet succumbed to the cancer that he sees ravish her body day by day . . . all of these souls have more than they can handle—on their own.But with Christ as their companion on the journey through life—and only with Christ—all things are possible. Without Him, we fail no matter how far we manage on our own. We can never cross over without Christ and His all-access Atonement.

~ Toni Sorenson

Break a bone..and as the broken part heals it becomes the strongest part in it....get hit by a virus, survive that and supposedly it can never get u again... observe how ur skin that gets rubbed on a surface often becomes thicker and more rough with time ....remember how naive you were before and with each incident and accident with people that you've had ..it brought you to the knowing better person you are now............you cant be stronger..if life doesn't try you every now and then ....and after each trial..it promises a stronger more immune version of you

~ Eman Farouk

Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice.  It feels as if Hades and his vile demons have risen from the depths of Tartarus solely for the purpose of banding to personally torture you, and that their genuine intent of mental, emotional, and spiritual anguish is tearing you to shreds.  Your heart weighs as heavily as leaden legs which you would drag yourself forward with if not for the quicksand that pulls you down inch by inch, paralyzing your will and threatening oblivion.  And all the while fire and brimstone pour from the sky, pelting only you.  Truly, that is what it feels like. But that feeling is a trial that won't last forever.  Never give up.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that’s been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother’s borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles from your goal in the middle of a hot, barren nowhere void of any basic necessities―then congratulations! You’re no observer but an actual participant in the game of life! Stand up and keep living.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life demands much. Give more.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

~ Shannon L. Alder

No matter how hard we try, we can never understand everything that another person has gone through or why they might believe a certain way. It is possible for something to be right for you and something completely opposite be right for someone else.

~ Daniel Willey

Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation.  For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life

~ Kristen Ashley

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.

~ Paul Brunton

Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead. A Passion Most Pure

~ Lessman

For the first time in my life, I fully realized that I was not in charge. I knew that I needed to submit to Heavenly Father's will. I couldn't have what I wanted when and how I wanted it just because I was keeping the commandments. The purpose of prayer was not to tell Heavenly Father what to do, rather to find out what He would have me do and learn. I needed to align my will with His...Prayer is less about changing our circumstances and more about changing us. It is about seeking His will and asking for His help to do what we need to do.June 2013 Ensign, Improving Your Personal Prayers

~ Kevin W. Pearson

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

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

We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.

~ K. Howard Joslin

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won’t undo you, but that will drive you toward reflection and understanding. Trust that your fears will sometimes tell you about your desires. You will see that you can survive the terror that comes with growth and change, with vulnerability and risk.

~ Donald Antrim

Life is a dance toward God, I began to think. And the dance is not so graceful as we might want. While we glide and swing out practiced sway, God crowds our feet, bumps our toes, and scuffs our shoes. So we learn to dance with the One who made us. And it is a difficult dance to learn, because its steps are foreign.

~ Donald Miller