Trials Quotes

If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.

~ Anonymous

The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.

~ Michael Dobbs

One of the greatest lesson is humility. Humility is like oxygen to the soul. You won’t get too far without it!

~ Dina Rolle

There has never been any great person who never met great trials and oppositions but their patience, tenacity, endurance and perseverance saw them to the end as great people

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

My world burns severe.Pockets of sweltering air attack every inch of me exposed, heated by fire spewed forth from the lungs of dragons. For defense I raise a glowing sword that shines by virtue of powers contrary to those I fight against. It is a battle that rages on and on for as long as any man can endure. But there are days I feel I cannot―drained and weary unlike these monsters that lash at me as if sustained by an abiding fervor in their bellies. The battle is harsh and my weapons

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I am grateful for all the trials for that made be a better person.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Life with trials hard may press me,Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.

~ Henry F. Lyte

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

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, It isn't fair about everything else.

~ Lois Lowry

Pause and remember: It is through our deepest trials and life hardships that we are given the greatest opportunity to find the person we have been looking for our whole life - our authentic beautiful self.

~ Jenni Young

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

~ Elizabeth George

Life’s journey doesn’t start on the highest mountain peak where a clear view of the trail ahead, obstacles and all, is laid out for us to observe before setting foot on the path. No. Life’s journey begins on a low road, in a valley, or even down inside a pit where the trail beyond can only be seen in short stretches, and any obstacles are met as they come. This makes life trying, even scary at times. Have faith that God gave you this life, and hence it is worth seeing through to the end of the trail.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You won’t solve your problems by drowning others in them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It may seem like the dragons tormenting you are bigger and fiercer than those lurking in your neighbor’s yard, but this is an illusion. We all face mighty dragons at home in some form.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Problems are never as difficult as when they are your own.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Those things that challenge the worst in us tend to strengthen the best in us.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If you couldn't sense heat, you'd not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if you were stagnant—unchallenged by unpredictable flares—you would never grow capable of shielding yourself from harsher flames. So yes, life was meant to drag you straight through the fire.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Face it; life's gonna chew you up and spit you out. If you're lucky you'll get stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe and be carried far, far away from it all.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so much more to embrace.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If you avoid all of life's abrasions you will never be polished enough to shine.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color.  I am overwhelmed by night and the monsters that lurk in shadows of despair.  But alas, stars twinkle from afar, shedding the tiniest rays of lighted hope.  I am reminded that the sun also rises and that morning's glory shall restore beauty to my world.  The realization of this dream is only a matter of waiting out the dreary night.  So, I shall persevere.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The bitterest hardships, the most daunting trials; none of these are burdens if it means being with you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Live in the moment... where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way.

~ J.a. Redmerski

He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

~ Jack Campbell

Patience is produced in the midst of storms, it blossoms under the intense pressures of the storms.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

We are all tired of the stress.

~ K. Howard Joslin

Unfortunately, it doesn’t ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is.

~ Kenneth Eade

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

I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.

~ K. Howard Joslin

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

~ Michelle Moran

The most important moments in a trial are often not seen by a jury. That is because it's one of the judge's main responsibilities to screen what they see and hear, lest they be prejudiced. It's the you can't unring a bell theory; once the jury hears something they shouldn't have heard, th trial is forever tainted. If the damage is great enough, a mistrial is the result. Judges basically prefer nuclear war to mistrials.

~ David Rosenfelt

Plowing through life, you’re bound to run into obstructions. Some of life’s trials result from mistakes and missteps, and some from poor choices. I know about that too, because I’ve made my share of blunders and had to face the consequences.Other times, the unexpected lands in your hands like a wayward ball and the “trouble” coming at you is like a 250-pound linebacker blitzing straight off the edge.

~ Jake Byrne