Trial Quotes
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"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
"But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak"
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you."
"What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed."Honestly?""Does now seem like the time for honesty?"I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap."
"Even in hardship, God’s goodness prevails."
"It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if You didn't Try."
"Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you."
"Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through."
"No definite sciencewithout trial & error."
"Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?"
"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use."
"Dispensing with the frivolity, he kissed her meaningfully. When at last he pulled away, her troubled expression alarmed him. "What?""Be careful, Hammond.""No one will know I was here."She shook her head. "Not that.""Then what?""You may have to put me on trial for my life. Please be careful that you don't make me fall in love with you first."
"Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you."
"The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community."
"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
"You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me."
"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."
"The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties."
"Work hard and take risks. Try it before you confirm it is difficult!"
"The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him."
"With God’s help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow."
"See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself."
"Christians know that joy is more than a feeling or an on-again, off-again sentiment that changes according to the circumstances they face. Followers of Jesus Christ distinguish between lasting joy and situational happiness. Fun and joy are not necessarily synonymous. We believe we can experience inner joy with no special external stimulus to make us happy."
"Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am."
"I won't compete with anybody. I love to compete with my own body. When God closes a door against me, I should not attempt to bang on it. And if God gives me a key to open a door, I should not misuse that key!"
"No matter how hard we try, we can never understand everything that another person has gone through or why they might believe a certain way. It is possible for something to be right for you and something completely opposite be right for someone else."
"Knowing that God is backing up our words and actions makes us strong, firm and courageous in any trial or persecution"
"Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had?Why must the sun be darkened before we feel how genuinely impossible it is to live without its warmth?Why within the misery of absence does love grow by such bounds?Why must life be this way?It is a strange existence where such suffering makes us far better people."
"Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs down a person’s potential."
"Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief."
"People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy."
"If you get a second chance, grab it with the first and second hands. Never let it go till all is done and done well. Second chances come with the last graces!"
"When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!"
"Make a change of your steps when necessary. “Status quo” is the court room where change is kept on trial for long, delaying the verdict. Make a change and achieve your dreams. Rule your case with victory."
"Trial and error” is not bad, but not the best. If you don’t know where the crowd is going, don’t follow it. Get set."
"Give it a little more trial, a little more risk, a little more pushing up and a little more stretching out. Stretch it more and let all your ideal length be seen. Your maximum self can only be known if you stretch hard till you can't do it any longer!"
"Don't give up! It seems difficult to you, right? Why not do something little about it every? A little strike each day can chop down big trees. Give it a try!"
"You may have been too quick to admit the difficulty of a specific task. The question is "how many times have you tried dealing with it"? Don't say it's difficult if you haven't tried it!"
"Leave complains behind; Stop worrying and murmuring about the difficulty of something that you have not even attempted doing! How do you know that it's difficult if you have not even attempted doing it? Go, give a try!"
"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."
"I had been so focused on why we were suffering through all these adversities that I had neglected to think about who could get me through them or how God was going to mold our hardships to be for his glory."
Tracie Miles, Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World
"Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too."
"If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom."
"When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma."
"I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here."
"people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection"
"...victims of violent crime are not always believed...[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]"
"For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted."
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