Tribulation Quotes - Page 3

• All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Travel, Self Esteem, Journey

  Martha Gellhorn (2001). “Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir”, p.13, Penguin

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• But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house. [...] A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Baby, Children

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• 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

  Heaven, Crowns, Worn

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• We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.

  Max De Pree

  Trials, Treasure, Accumulation

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• 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

  Art, Soul, Permit

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• I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Strong, People

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• They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.

  Toni Morrison

  Light, Hands, Lovely

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, p.16, Random House

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• The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

  Evander Holyfield

  Stories, Trials, Way

  "'Mama's whippings meant I didn't wind up like Tyson'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2008.

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• Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting

  Tavis Smiley

  Winning, Interesting, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that every record label has its trials and tribulations, its ups and downs. The only thing you can do is hope to recognize what it is that makes you great, and to try and continue to capture it.

  El-P

  Thinking, Trying, Labels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We all have trials and tribulations and that shows who we are as a person.

  Travis Browne

  Mma, Trials, Who We Are

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• We're going to be surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much like this life. Of course, it will be better, much more beautiful and supernatural, without all the troubles, trials, tribulations, suffering, tears and pain we have here. However, it will still be enough like this life that we will survive the change and not suffer some sort of traumatic culture shock. It'll be life very much like we're living now, only without the bad and evil.

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Pain, Evil

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• Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.

  James E. Faust

  Men, Years, Listening

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• . And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

  Herbert Hoover

  Peace, War, Sorrow

  "Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945".

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• 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

  Storm, Trials, Faces

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• For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

  Steven Pinker

  Civilization, Accomplishment, Enlightenment

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.737, Penguin

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• If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

  Alan Thicke

  Humorous, Thinking, Trials

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• Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Decision, Trials

  "Mary J Blige: 'Whitney Houston's funeral freaked me out'". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2013.

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• I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Voice, Piano

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• 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

  Years, People, Covenant

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• There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Saint, Periods

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• 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

  Illumination, Servant Of God, Suffering

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• No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Lying, Inspiration

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• 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 from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.

  Lucretius

  Gratitude, Men, Wind

  "On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, Book II, lines 1 - 4 (tr. Rouse),

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• Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church and of nations are greater than at any other period, and this persecution is more dangerous than those of previous times. Hence, the devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Holy Eucharist, Special, Church

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