QUOTATION: Trials

In sending us trials, God proportions them to our weakness.

--St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Conferences and Instructions

QUOTATION: Trials

We must be prepared to undergo great trials in the not-too-distant future; trials that will require us to be ready to give up even our lives, and a total gift of self to Christ and for Christ. Through your prayers and mine, it is possible to alleviate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to avert it... How many times has the renewal of the Church been brought about in blood! It will not be different this time.

--Pope St. John Paul II

QUOTATION: Trials

If the Good Lord is testing you, it's because he wants you to love him more.

--St. Andre Bessette, as quoted in Frère André disait souvent... Recueil de paroles de Frère André rapportées par ses amis.

QUOTATION: Trials

When there are trials, it's a sign of success. There is always a reserve of extraordinary graces waiting a trial that is well endured.

--St. Andre Bessette, as quoted in Frère André disait souvent... Recueil de paroles de Frère André rapportées par ses amis.

QUOTATION: Trials and Tribulations

We must patiently endure the tribulations of this life-- ill-health, sorrows, poverty, losses, bereavement of kindred, affronts, persecutions, and all that is disagree able. Let us invariably look on the trials of this world as signs of God's love towards us, and of his desire to save us in the world to come. And let us, moreover, be fully persuaded that the involuntary mortifications which God himself sends us are far more pleasing to him than those which are the fruit of our own choice.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Holy Eucharist

QUOTATION: Trials

Know, however, that if you are to be a friend of God, you must prepare yourself for trials, for without them all your virtues is like an unwalled city, which falls at the first onslaught.

--St. John of Avila

QUOTATION: Trials

God is touched by our sorrows and does not allow them to last forever. He takes pleasure in trying our love for a time because he sees that trials purify us and render us worthy to receive his greater graces.

--St. Claude de la Colombiere

QUOTATION: Trials

God's way in dealing with those whom He intends to admit the soonest after this life into the possession of His everlasting glory, is to purify them in this world by the greatest afflictions and trials.

--St. Ignatius Loyola, Letter 126

QUOTATION: Crosses

If you bear  this cross and burden well, He will send you interior and more painful trials, which He keeps for His dearest friends, to conform them to Himself. For though Christ's visible cross was great, it was not to be compared to that which, unknown to men, He bore in His soul.

--St. John of Avila, Letters, VII

QUOTATION: Poverty and Tribulations

Poverty and tribulations are given us by God as trials of our fidelity and virtue, as well as to enrich us with more real and lasting riches in heaven.

--St. Philip Neri

QUOTATION: Trials

Let us be convinced of this infallible truth, that in the present state of corrupt nature we cannot be saved unless we pass through the many tribulations with which this life is filled.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Holy Eucharist

QUOTATION: God's Blessings

We have a tendency to think that if we love God, and He loves us, He's going to bless us with the 'good things of life.' And He does. The problem lies in our definition of the 'good things of life.' Trials are sometimes as much of a good thing as new car or health.

--Mother Angelica

QUOTATION: Trials

Say frequently, in the midst of your contradictions and sufferings: This is the path to heaven.

--St Francis de Sales

QUOTATION: The Mark of Holiness

If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want to become a great saint? Ask God to send you many sufferings. The flame of Divine Love never rises higher than when fed with the wood of the Cross, which the infinite charity of the Savior used to finish His sacrifice. All the pleasures of the world are nothing compared with the sweetness found in the gall and vinegar offered to Jesus Christ. That is, hard and painful things endured for Jesus Christ and with Jesus Christ.

--St. Ignatius Loyola

QUOTATION: Suffering

God's way in dealing with those whom He intends to admit soonest after this life into the possession of His everlasting glory, is to purify them in this world by the greatest afflictions and trials.

--St. Ignatius Loyola

QUOTATION: Trials

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

--St. Teresa of Avila

QUOTATION: Tribulation

A meek man ought to behave in this way during tribulation; he should neither speak proudly himself nor retort to what is spoken wickedly, but should bless those who speak evil of him and suffer willingly, either for justice' sake if he had deserved it or for God's sake if he has deserved nothing.

--St. Thomas More

QUOTATION: Standing up for God

Stand your ground like an anvil under the hammer. The mark of a true champion is to stand up to punishment and still come out victorious. It is our duty, particularly when the cause is God's, to accept trials of all kinds, if we ourselves are to be accepted by him.


--St Ignatius of Antioch

QUOTATION: Trials

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.  

-- C.S.  Lewis

QUOTATION: Christ is the Way

You’ve got to be centered on Christ. It’s a work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit forms Jesus within us. No cross? No crown. No pain? No gain. No way around it – if there was a shortcut, I’d know it and I’d tell ya.

--Father John Corapi