Quotes about Trials
God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.
- John Piper
Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.
- Steven Furtick
God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.
- Richard Sibbes
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.
- Thomas Watson
God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.
- DL Moody
Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.
- Mark Dever
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
- Phillips Brooks
Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.
- Timothy Keller
The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?
- Philip Yancey