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• We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Adversity, Religion

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• The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

  Samuel Smiles

  Work, Men, Suffering

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• Trials teach us what we are.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivational, Teach

  "Gleanings among the Sheaves". Book by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, "The Use of Trial", p. 41, 1869.

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• We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

  Frank A. Clark

  Spiritual, Adversity, Christian Inspirational

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• Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting

  Tavis Smiley

  Winning, Interesting, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Blessing, Sand

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• God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Son, Sin

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• He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

  Publilius Syrus

  Guilt

  "Maxims".

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  The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

  J. C. Ryle

  Thinking, World, Knees

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• Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Patience, Religious, Islamic

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• Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Disappointment, Shadow, Sides

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Military, Failure

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• Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.

  T. B. Joshua

  Adversity, Rebel, Trust In God

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• It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Life, Disappointment, Struggle

  Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Pain, Suffering, Fortitude

  "Faith precedes the miracle". Book by Spencer W. Kimball, 1972.

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• No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Faith, God, Christian

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Yards, Inches, Miles

  Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly (2011). “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

  Estelle

  Character, Fire, Theater

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• The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.

  Anthony Trollope

  Simple, Duration, Matter

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.425, 谷月社

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• Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Dream, Jesus, Joy

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• I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Devil, Lawyer

  "Ann Coulter Reacts After John Edwads Calls Her a "She-Devil". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. August 23, 2007.

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• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

  Saint Basil

  Inspirational, Religious, Courage

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• I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

  Christopher Columbus

  Brother, Taken, Hair

  Letter to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 07, 1503.

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