#tested

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#back #been #doubt #faith #far

I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#courageous #decision #everybody #exists #fear

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness? ↗

— Sean Hannity

#anyone #country #detested #governor #greatness

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#history #philosophy #tested #way #which

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#aristotle #authority #bother #conventional #correct

After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad. ↗

— Sterling Marlin

#airport #bad #dover #get #going

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#challenged #good #life #may #tested

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bierce #detested #independant #thought #death

A wife's loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband's loyalty is tested when he has everything. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#male-and-female #marriage #relationships #tested #marriage

This praise, though far from fulsome, gave me pleasure and that is to my shame. But there was something in him, some power of spirit, that made me want to please him. Perhaps, it occurs to me now, it was no more than the intensity of his wish. Men are distinguished by the power of their wanting. What this one wanted became his province and his meal, he governed it and fed on it from the first moment of desire. Besides, with the perversity of our nature, being tested had made me more desire to succeed, though knowing the enterprise to be sinful. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#wanting #men