Trials Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Trials Quotes
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“Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
Source: Fourfold Aspect
“The child of trial, to mortality And all its changeful influences given; On the green earth decreed to move and die, And yet by such a fate prepared for heaven.”
Sir Humphrey Davy Quotes
Source: Written after Recovery from a Dangerous Illness
“'Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.”
William Edward Hickson Quotes
Source: Try and try again
“But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: The Sifting of Peter (st. 7)
“Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 228)
“There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.”
Charles Hadden Spurgeon Quotes
Source: Gleanings among the Sheaves--Cross-Bearers
“As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,”
Charles Hadden Spurgeon Quotes
Source: Gleanings Among the Sheaves--Privileges of Trial
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.”
Charles Hadden Spurgeon Quotes
Source: Gleanings among the Sheaves--The Use of Trial
“God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.”
J. K. Gressett Quotes
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
Chinese Proverb Quotes
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon Quotes
“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.”
Ouida Quotes