Quotes about Trials

“If you have a lemon, make lemonade.”

“I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.”

“Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.”

“Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.”

“God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.”

“The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.”

“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”

“The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.”

“Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.”

“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.”

“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”

“All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.”

“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”

“All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.”

“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

“Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.”

“There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.”

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”

“A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”

“Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.”

“Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.”

“If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.”

“Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.”

“There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ''If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.”

“God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.”

“I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?”

“I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.”

“Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you again what you are to presume. I am the judge. I am telling you that. Presume he is innocent. When you sit there, I want you to look and say to yourself, There sits an innocent man.”