Quotes about Trials
Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you'll look back on everything you've been through and thank God for it.
— Germany Kent
Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.
— Kay Arthur
There can be no greater spiritual accomplishment than to come through brutal trials and then look back and see that mean times did not render us mean spirits.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.
— Teresa of Avila
The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
But we can't believe that he condescends to watch the soap opera of our daily trials and tribulations; so we purchase our own remedies for that.
— Eugene Peterson
Psalm 120 is the psalm of repentance—the one that gets us out of an environment of deceit and hostility and sets us on our way to God. Psalm 121 is the psalm of trust—a demonstration of how faith resists patent-medicine remedies to trials and tribulations and determinedly trusts God to work out his will and "guard you from every evil" in the midst of difficulty
— Eugene Peterson
As silver in a crucible and gold in a pan, so our lives are assayed by GOD.
— Eugene Peterson
People ask me, "What about Job?" My response is, "What about Jesus?" Job provides the question. Jesus gives the answer. The story of Job is about holding to our faith in the midst of trials and seeing God restore everything brilliantly. But the story of Jesus is the only one I follow.
— Bill Johnson
Do we not continually pass by blessings innumerable without notice, and instead fix our eyes on what we feel to be our trials and our losses, and think and talk about these until our whole horizon is filled with them, and we almost begin to think we have no blessings at all?
— Hannah Whitall Smith