Quotes about Trials

There is, in fact, no redemptive work done anywhere without suffering.

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

Faith is not a hothouse plant that must be shielded from wind and rain, so delicate that it has to be protected, but it's like the sturdy oak which becomes stronger with every wind that blows upon it. An easy time weakens faith, while strong trials strengthen it.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.

As you abide in Christ, you will have strength for today's trials as well as for all tomorrow's challenges.

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials. James 1:2

Count it all joy…when you fall into various trials (JAMES 1:2).

Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.

We mustn't allow our circumstances and disappointments to become the excuse for the choices we make in life. God is greater than all of that, and He can bring beauty out of ashes. Our trials come, Augustine said, "to prove us and to improve us.

Suffering in and of itself does not lead a person into a deeper relationship with God. As with those who hear the word of God yet do not respond to it with faith, suffering divorced from faith and hope will actually embitter us as our hearts grow harder rather than softer toward God. In other words, suffering will either make us run to God or away from Him. In the midst of trials, we must ask ourselves, "Is this trial making me bitter and callous, or is it making me loving and gentle?

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.