Quotes about Trials

His astonishing constancy during these trials, and serenity of countenance while under such excruciating torments, gave the spectators so exalted an idea of the dignity and truth of the christian religion, that many became converts upon the occasion,

We all know the internal trials of the soul react upon the body, rending its nerves and affecting its strength—" A broken spirit drieth the bones" (Prov. 17: 22)

I know no sweeter way to heaven, than through free grace and hard trials together, and one of these cannot well want another.

Not one ounce, not one grain-weight more is laid on me than He hath enabled me to bear . . . Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know He but heweth and polisheth stones for the new Jerusalem.

Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified.

If we are Christ's, then what befalls us is for His glory and for our good, whether it is caused by enzymes or by enemies.

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

Satan . . . afflicted Job with loathsome sores," Job's response was, "Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

It is written that God cursed the ground for man's sake. Genesis 3:17. The thorn and the thistle—the difficulties and trials that make his life one of toil and care—were appointed for his good as a part of the training needful in God's plan for his uplifting from the ruin and degradation that sin has wrought.

Job was stripped of his earthly treasures, bereaved of his children, and made a spectacle of loathing to his friends, but in God's time He showed He had not forsaken His servant.