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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
Trials teach us what we are. -- Charles Spurgeon
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. -- George MacDonald
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. -- Confucius
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise -- Oscar Wilde
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. -- Charles Spurgeon
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. -- Oscar Wilde
Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. -- James Buckham Kennedy
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. -- Ambrose Bierce
Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears. -- Charles Seymour Robinson
A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial. -- Mark Twain
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
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
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win. -- Tammy Bruce
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
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. -- William Butler Yeats
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.) -- Carl Sagan
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
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
In the time of Jesus the mount of transfiguration was on the way to the cross. In our day the cross is on the way to the mount of transfiguration. If you would be on the mountain. you must consent to pass over the road to it. -- Henry Clay Trumbull
Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials. -- John L. Parker Jr.
Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes. -- T. B. Joshua
Trials can be hard, if you don't know God. -- Al Green
I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have. -- Natalie Coughlin
Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe. -- Tony Evans
Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith. -- George Muller
Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated. -- Elizabeth George
So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing. -- Sete Gibernau
It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set. -- Sete Gibernau
Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections. -- Magdalena de Pazzi
Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world. -- Therese of Lisieux
You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials. -- Joan Rivers
The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death) -- Darren Shan
Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength. -- Jim George
Trials show us where we are and where we need to grow. Dont run from them, grow from them. -- lecrae
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. -- Warren E. Burger
The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward. -- Ryan Lochte
Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it. -- Ato Boldon
Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. -- Richard G. Scott
A great storm puts out a little fire but feeds a strong one. Trials conquer weak faith but grow a strong faith. -- lecrae
Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights. -- Shirin Ebadi
Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there. -- William Cowper
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
Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for. -- Neal A. Maxwell
The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth. -- David Rosenfelt
I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it. -- Dominique Moceanu
I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding. -- Sete Gibernau
She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics. -- Carly Patterson
Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development thanks to his hardships and trials.These are what prepare man for the Coming of Love. -- Peter Deunov
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
Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine. -- Saint Augustine
Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move. -- Jerry Bridges
What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I just looked it up - that "Trials have provided some of the best examples of 'micro-history' or the 'new narrative'...." And that was it. -- Debra Hamel
God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith. -- George Muller
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. -- Orison Swett Marden
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. -- Herbert Hoover
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. -- Carl Lewis
There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong. -- Mary J. Blige
We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith. -- Joyce Meyer
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. -- Lewis Mumford
The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences. -- Evander Holyfield
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises. -- David Wilkerson
Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations. -- Mary J. Blige
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
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law. -- Judith Butler
Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life. -- Don King
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man! -- Charles Eastman
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. -- Dag Hammarskjold
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. -- Kim Jong Il
Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff. -- Rob Zombie
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. -- Allyson Felix
I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median. -- Apolo Ohno
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue. -- Dada Vaswani
And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared. -- Ann Romney
Fiery trials make golden Christians. -- Charles Spurgeon
I am stronger than my trials. -- Dan Wells
Great faith must have great trials. -- Charles Spurgeon
Home is our greatest place of trials. -- Muhammad bin Muhammad
Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary. -- J. C. Ryle
Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs. -- George R. R. Martin
Your trials last as long as your disobedience. -- Daryl Baugh
The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity. -- Matt Chandler
Great triumphs can only come out of great trials -- Smith Wigglesworth
Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed. -- Ramsey Clark
I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances. -- Marcia Clark
I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. -- L. Neil Smith
With faith come trials of faith, bringing increased faith. -- Neil L. Andersen
Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials. -- Samuel Smiles
Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials. -- Joyce Meyer
Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy. -- Elizabeth George
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor. -- Clarence Darrow
The trials and tribulations in your life make you stronger. -- Taylor Swift
With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure. -- Russell M. Nelson
If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists. -- Rudy Giuliani
Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working. -- Francis of Assisi
Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials. -- Ann Rule
Let us remember: trials are an evidence of a Father's love. -- H. Burke Peterson
No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life. -- Martin Lawrence
Just like salt makes sweet taste sweeter, trials make happy feel happier. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Personal trials are the great equalizer that continues to draw public fascination. -- Alana Stewart
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear. -- Boyd K. Packer
On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first. -- Morgan Griffith
The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials. -- George Muller
All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles. -- Teresa of Avila
My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
There are trials and mistakes and even wars along the path of marriage. -- Patti Callahan Henry
I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. -- Kurt Loder
I have known the spirit of my soul through the trials and temptations. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness. -- Michelle Cruz
Life with trials hard may press me;Heaven will bring me sweeter rest. -- Henry F. Lyte
Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Come ye trials and challanges; come life's big waves, for I am ready? -- Mas Oyama
Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness. -- Michelle Cruz

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