Quotes about Trials

Often the trials we mourn are really gateways into the good things we long for.

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

The difficulties have taken much away. I get that. But there is one gift your trouble cannot touch: your destiny.

Nothing in his story glosses over the presence of evil. Quite the contrary. Bloodstains, tearstains are everywhere. Joseph's heart was rubbed raw against the rocks of disloyalty and miscarried justice. Yet time and time again God redeemed the pain. The torn robe became a royal one. The pit became a palace. The broken family grew old together. The very acts intended to destroy God's servant turned out to strengthen him.

Struggles come, for sure. But so does God.

Strong Christians see God in both the good and the bad. The mature believer sees God not only in pleasures and palaces, but also in the barnyards and stables of life.

We have a heavenly Father who is with us through every trial.

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward.

You'll Get Through This

Life pulls us down.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. (Isa. 43:2)1

the trials and tensions of the world take us back behind our ego where the Divine Self is waiting, that part I know is truth. We aren't the God of the Western world, but each of us is a piece of the Divine. Pain and loss initiate us to our oneness with each other, God, and life. Nothing can separate us from God, no matter how alone we feel.