Tribulation Quotes

• God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Pain, Stains

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• If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Uplifting, Christian, Mean

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• The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Commitment, Blow

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• If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Summer, Winter, Garden

  Saint John Chrysostom, Edward Budge, Charles Marriott (1842). “To the People of Antioch”, p.77

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• There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Kings, Adversity, Men

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.

  John Piper

  Gun, Compassion, People

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

  Orson F. Whitney

  Pain, Suffering, Trials

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

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• Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Pain, Struggle, Choices

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• Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

  William Arthur Ward

  Wise, Time, Learning

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• No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Trials, Facts

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Great Enemy”, p.6, Penguin

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• For those who are walking in their purpose, even the great tribulation will be a minor event. There will be far more attention on what Christ is doing than on what the antichrist is doing.

  Rick Joyner

  Events, Attention, Purpose

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• In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

  John of the Cross

  Confidence, Enlightenment, Instruction

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• We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  This Life, Trials And Tribulations, Happens

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• In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.

  John H. Vincent

  School, Class, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 569, 1895.

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• As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their lustre; the more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, their God has no end in view but to perfect His people's graces. Our Father, and and kindest of fathers, He afflicts not willingly; He sends tribulations, but hear St Paul tell their purpose, - "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope."

  Thomas Guthrie

  Art, Cutting, Views

  "Man and the Gospel".

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• There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past . . . 'Ain't it awful?' . . . or . . . 'Good information!' Our choice of responses will determine our experience of life.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Two, Choices

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• Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

  Thomas Hughes

  Cheer, Overcoming, World

  Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.33, Litres

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• Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma (see Alma 40:8), and God has a very good memory.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Memories, Men, Triumph

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

  Orson F. Whitney

  Pain, Heart, Character

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• Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

  Margaret Mead

  Second Chance, Grandparent, Anxiety

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

  C. S. Lewis

  Suffering, Hopeless, Cease

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faith is a principle of action. It is our willingness to believe in the Savior that unleashes His power in our lives. Faith is not a bulwark against tribulation, but an assurance that the Lord is overseeing all.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Believe, Principles, Action

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• The living Jesus will give you joy amid tribulation.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Jesus, Giving, Joy

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• Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Greatness, Poverty, Faces

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• If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.

  Al-Ghazali

  Adversity, Over You, Trying

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