Tribulation Quotes

• God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Pain, Stains

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• If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Uplifting, Christian, Mean

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• The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Commitment, Blow

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• O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.

  John Piper

  Gun, Compassion, People

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• If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Summer, Winter, Garden

  Saint John Chrysostom, Edward Budge, Charles Marriott (1842). “To the People of Antioch”, p.77

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• There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Kings, Adversity, Men

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Pain, Struggle, Choices

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• For those who are walking in their purpose, even the great tribulation will be a minor event. There will be far more attention on what Christ is doing than on what the antichrist is doing.

  Rick Joyner

  Events, Attention, Purpose

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• Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

  William Arthur Ward

  Wise, Time, Learning

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

  Orson F. Whitney

  Pain, Suffering, Trials

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

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• No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Trials, Facts

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Great Enemy”, p.6, Penguin

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• Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

  Thomas Hughes

  Cheer, Overcoming, World

  Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.33, Litres

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• There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past . . . 'Ain't it awful?' . . . or . . . 'Good information!' Our choice of responses will determine our experience of life.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Two, Choices

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• Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma (see Alma 40:8), and God has a very good memory.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Memories, Men, Triumph

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• In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

  John of the Cross

  Confidence, Enlightenment, Instruction

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• We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  This Life, Trials And Tribulations, Happens

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• Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

  Margaret Mead

  Second Chance, Grandparent, Anxiety

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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

  Orson F. Whitney

  Pain, Heart, Character

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• Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Greatness, Poverty, Faces

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• If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.

  Al-Ghazali

  Adversity, Over You, Trying

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• No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

  Martin Luther

  Adversity, Men, Suffering

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.270

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• We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike. But what is being tested is the same, at all times in our lives and for every person: will we do whatsoever the Lord our God will command us?

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Father, Adversity

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

  Nikola Tesla

  Struggle, Past, Human Stupidity

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

  C. S. Lewis

  Suffering, Hopeless, Cease

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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