#trial

[Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two. ↗

— Kristen Heitzmann

#circumstances #inspirational #salvation #trials #inspirational

The first time is always the hardest ↗

— Sarwat Chadda

#death #kill #trials #death

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. [IRC discussion at Scifi.com, 1 November 1996] ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#humor #intelligent-life #life #science #universe

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#growth #life #trials #life

To live is to war with trolls. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#fighting #internet #life #trial #trolls

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#challenge #genius #heroism #intelligence #trial

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#life #opportunity #trials #life

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 monstrosity. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#coping #drown #enduring #free #hope

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. ↗

— John Marshall

#guilt #innocence #justice #law #legality

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

— Henry F. Lyte

#heaven #trials #trouble #life