It is not at all a fit place for you,” said Clementina.”Gently, my lady. It is a greater than thou that sets the bounds of my habitation. Perhaps He may give me a palace one...

There’s a difference between driving and texting. When your driving your eyes have to be open and on the road watching the cars around you, road signs, and traffic lights. Along with your mind on...

Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love . . .

Don’t underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.

In a time when I need a little hope I look at a photo of where I call home and think of the moment I’ll have when I go back with my trials and struggles...

Affliction is a good man’s shining time.

As long as you are aware of the life that you positively desire, and consistently stick to its path with a courageous mindset, your trials and tribulations would become highly irrelevant.

We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but...

Just like salt makes sweet taste sweeter, trials make happy feel happier.

The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.

The delight which the mariner feels, when, after having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when amidst all the changes of...

Trials are a part of life, but there is value in sometimes experiencing adversity which will test (and so strengthen) our faith and also build an understanding of God and ourselves.

Failure’s Only R-E-A-L Second Chance Is Jesus! He offers another chance EVERY time you fall down and even empowers your getting back up as He guarantees at To gain this privilege in the dirty here...

Quite frankly we are both tired of the race we have been asked to run.

No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don’t advertise their woes and heartaches. But nobody, not even the purest heart, escapes life...

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.

The fault in our stars is the inability to see that the world falls in love with fantasy, fairytales and magic in movies. Even religion asks us to believe in the most unlikely of situations....

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny…

One of the greatest lesson is humility. Humility is like oxygen to the soul. You won’t get too far without it!

Life with trials hard may press me;Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.

Trust and believe, and you will achieve.

Memories of the past year came tumbling down on me. The recent changes and reverses were almost overwhelming. I was learning that life flowed like a river. When the run-off was normal, the water ran...

Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for.

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.

Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and...

With God’s help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow.

Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation.

…the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

My world burns severe.Pockets of sweltering air attack every inch of me exposed, heated by fire spewed forth from the lungs of dragons. For defense I raise a glowing sword that shines by virtue of...

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Each burden we have to carry has once been laid on the shoulders of Immanuel. – Charles H. Spurgeon

You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular!

I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.

I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.

There are many who don’t wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don’t wish to wake for the same fear.

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

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will ‘turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Kafara ya maombi ni kushukuru wakati wa matatizo. Kushukuru kuna nguvu kuliko kuomba.

Truly it is the hardest of all trials to see souls so dear in pains we cannot remedy.

For when God is said by these things to try men and prove them, to see what is in their hearts and whether they will keep His commandments or no, we are not to understand,...

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust…

Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.

Life is a battle, and you either enter it armed, or surrender immediately.

You never really know what’s coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its...

The most important moments in a trial are often not seen by a jury. That is because it’s one of the judge’s main responsibilities to screen what they see and hear, lest they be prejudiced....

Live in the moment… where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you’ll get wherever it is you’re going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road...

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.