Quotes about Trials

People ask me, "What about Job?" My response is, "What about Jesus?" Job provides the question. Jesus gives the answer. The story of Job is about holding to our faith in the midst of trials and seeing God restore everything brilliantly. But the story of Jesus is the only one I follow.

Do we not continually pass by blessings innumerable without notice, and instead fix our eyes on what we feel to be our trials and our losses, and think and talk about these until our whole horizon is filled with them, and we almost begin to think we have no blessings at all?

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.