Quotes about Tried

The life of faith brings the two into a right relation. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of the natural and the spiritual; of impulse and inspiration. Nothing Jesus Christ ever said is common sense, it is revelation sense, and it reaches the shores where common sense fails. Faith must be tried before the reality of faith is actual.

where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

God knows the time for joy and truly Will send it when he sees it meet When He has tried and purged thee duly And found thee free from all deceit. He comes to thee all unaware And makes thee own His loving care.3

Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!' 'I haven't the least idea what you're talking

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.