Trials Quotes

• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Teaching, Soil, Made

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106”, p.233, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Success, Hope

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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• No matter our circumstances, no matter our challenges or trials, there is something in each day to embrace and cherish. There is something in each day that can bring gratitude and joy if only we will see and appreciate it.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

  Isaac Newton

  Wise, Skills, Medicine

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• By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.

  Horace Bushnell

  Humble, Mean, Self Confidence

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.432

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• Trials teach us what we are.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivational, Teach

  "Gleanings among the Sheaves". Book by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, "The Use of Trial", p. 41, 1869.

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• Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.

  T. B. Joshua

  Adversity, Rebel, Trust In God

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• If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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  The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Patience, Religious, Islamic

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• We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

  Frank A. Clark

  Spiritual, Adversity, Christian Inspirational

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• We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Adversity, Religion

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• Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Military, Failure

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• Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

  J. C. Ryle

  Thinking, World, Knees

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• It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Life, Disappointment, Struggle

  Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Faith, God, Christian

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Light, Congress And The President, Honor

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Pain, Suffering, Fortitude

  "Faith precedes the miracle". Book by Spencer W. Kimball, 1972.

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• Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Disappointment, Shadow, Sides

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

  Edith Sitwell

  Baby, Water, Hot

  As quoted in "20,000 Quips & Quotes" by Evan Esa, 1995.

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• Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  James Buckham Kennedy

  Depression, Wise, Adversity

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• A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

  Mark Twain

  Lame, Murder, Jokes

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.485

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• I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

  Christopher Columbus

  Brother, Taken, Hair

  Letter to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 07, 1503.

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