Trials Quotes
Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.
Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for.
Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead. A Passion Most Pure
God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
Don’t ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.
We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.
Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.
If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.
Trust and believe, and you will achieve.
Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation.
God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.
The deepest wretchedness often results from a perpetual continuation of petty trials.
Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.
Sometimes life takes you into a dark place where you feel it's impossible to breathe. You think you've been buried, but don't give up, because if truth be told, you've actually been planted.
Joy is found in Jesus when we rejoice in Him. We can rejoice our way to joy!
Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.
Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.
Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived.
Always make sure that the PAST is a Previous Action Successfully Terminated and not a Permanent Application of Stressful Trials.
Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?
Truly it is the hardest of all trials to see souls so dear in pains we cannot remedy.
Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.
Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.
Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.
Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?
That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness.
The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.
If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.
It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.
I'm so sorry about all you're going through, but I'm not sorry that it brought you to me.
Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.
Thomas had lived in fear and terror the past few weeks, but this was almost too much. To feel safe only to have that snatched away again.
There are no good tights, Rare they are, a rare sight. You roll and roll Inside a new hole, They´re only good for a fight.
Look innocent. Have hope.” “Okay.” “And remember…” “What?” “Even O.J. Simpson was acquitted.
Ann: What if there is no God? What if the Bible isn’t true?
