Alice James
Writer
"It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon."
Trials quotes
Trials
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Martin Lawrence
Actor, Comedian
"NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life."
Hugo Black
Justice
"There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity."
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"This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity."
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"The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?"
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"There's a lot of trials and tribulations you have to go through to get what you want, especially if you feel like it belongs to you."
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"The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge."
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"There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us."
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"How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave."
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"For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors."
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"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."
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"Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths."
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"do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation."
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"Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial."
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"By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace."
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"A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune."
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"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."
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"You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me."
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"What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily."
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"Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord."
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"A fair trial would have been no trial at all."
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"No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great."
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"A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception."
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