Trials Quotes - Page 36

• This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands

  Brenton Brown

  Hands, Joy, Humans

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• If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Decision, Mind, Gains

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.611, Stanford University Press

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• Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good.

  Omar Suleiman

  Punishment, Merciful

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Mar 12, 2013

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• If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

  Mary Ruefle

  Errors, Ideas, Path

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• In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

  Anais Nin

  Scene, Accusation, Court

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• Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Wish, Fading, Answers

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Oct 01, 2014

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• Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friendship, Long, Growth

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• The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Destiny, Men, Heaven

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.197

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• When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

  William Shenstone

  Matter, Way, Judgment

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• Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.
  [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
  Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Ridicule

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• A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

  Albert Camus

  Civilization, Deeds, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.181, Vintage

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• A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

  Jane Austen

  World, Prettiest, Convinced

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.1273, BookBaby

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• it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Blessing, Mirth

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.

  William Ramsay

  Progress, Hundred, Made

  William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”

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• In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Mother, Religious, Enough

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• And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

  George Orwell

  War, Practice, Long

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Morning, Stars, America

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• We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Overcoming

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• Berlusconi is being tried because he lives with women. If he was homosexual, no one would have lifted a finger against him.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Faces, Berlusconi

  "Berlusconi would never have been shamed if he was gay - Putin". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 20, 2013.

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• I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances.

  Marcia Clark

  Missing, Appearance, Courtroom

  "Former O.J. prosecutor trades courtroom for crime fiction". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2012.

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• I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial'.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Failing, Bigs, Concerned

  "Elizabeth Warren Embarrasses Hapless Bank Regulators At First Hearing" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike. But what is being tested is the same, at all times in our lives and for every person: will we do whatsoever the Lord our God will command us?

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Father, Adversity

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• Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome.

  Bill Struth

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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• The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

  Emile Durkheim

  Christian, Country, Thinking

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

  Washington Irving

  Rose, Achievement, May

  Washington Irving “Life of George Washington”

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