598 Quotes About Trials

Impossible and extremely difficult are as unalike as the desert and the ocean.

Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance.

Life is a dance toward God, I began to think. And the dance is not so graceful as we might want. While we glide and swing out practiced sway, God crowds our feet, bumps our toes, and scuffs our shoes. So we learn to dance with the One who made us. And it is a difficult dance to learn, because its steps are foreign.

How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem awful make me feel any better? You mean I could sink even lower? Oh joy!

Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.

A lot more hurt eats at your heart when it’s personal.

If you dream your problems at night and live your problems by day, you are suffering the effects of paralyzing toxins delivered by the sting of worry, stress, and fear. You must detach yourself from these leeches if you do not wish to be irreversibly poisoned.

Life is a test. Without problems to solve, it wouldn’t be much of a test.

You won’t solve your problems by drowning others in them.