598 Quotes About Trials

If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that’s been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother’s borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles from your goal in the middle of a hot, barren nowhere void of any basic necessities―then congratulations! You’re no observer but an actual participant in the game of life! Stand up and keep living.

Sometimes it feels as if God set you on Earth with a bottle full of nasty-tasting pills called days and these instructions: Swallow one at a time. When entire prescription is finished, you may return home.

One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends.

Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.

This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so much more to embrace.

Through heart-ache and head-aches comes much value. Without the trials of life, we cannot grow within ourselves to understand the concept of life.

Trials teaches a man better than tales.

If you avoid all of life's abrasions you will never be polished enough to shine.

The holy training is trials of time.