Tribulation first makes one realize what one is. — Marie Antoinette
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. — John Calvin
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity. — Seneca
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
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. — Seneca
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. — Charles Spurgeon
Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe. — Tony Evans
Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God. — Beth Moore
Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for. — Neal A. Maxwell
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. — Seneca The Elder
If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. — Sheri L. Dew
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. — Richard M. Nixon
It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification. — Billy Graham
Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is. — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Short Ordeal Quotes
Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith — Yasmin Mogahed
Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups. — Kamisese Mara
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start. — Zane Grey
Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal. — Peg Kehret
The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you. — Muriel Barbery
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire. — Timothy Keller
The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience. — Bruce Fordyce
Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. — William Shakespeare
Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability. — Pope Francis
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All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles? — Eliphas Levi
Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives. — Henry David Thoreau
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment? — Seneca
The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive. — Susan Smith
The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be? — Lillian Smith
Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys. — Ramona Koval
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it. — Amartya Sen
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. — Antonin Artaud
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. — M. F. K. Fisher
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. — William Manchester
Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity. — Sarada Devi
My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan — Stephenie Meyer
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. — Joseph Campbell
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact. — Andre Derain
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. — John Berryman
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship. — Benjamin Cheever
Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am. — Dean Koontz
All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another. — William Saroyan
There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink Ayahuasca. It is in a way the ultimate adventure. — Graham Hancock
Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship. — Joseph Campbell
[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation. — Voltairine de Cleyre
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations. — William James
I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice. — John Carlos
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. — Winston Churchill
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. — Huston Smith
She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. — Margaret Sanger
Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues. — Ward Churchill
The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels. — Isabella Beeton
Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy? — Randy Alcorn
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. — Jim Carrey
Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age. — Colleen McCullough
We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy. — Alexander Herzen
Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know. — Brooks Atkinson
Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation. — James Martineau
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. — Steve Buyer
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. — Thomas Malthus
The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal. — Kieran Culkin
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