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Trials: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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.— E. B. BROWNING — 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 — Written after

Recovery from a Dangerous Illness. But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger.— LONGFELLOW — The Sifting of Peter. St. 7.

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.— GERALD MASSEY — The Kingliest Kings.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest have oftest wreck'd.— MILTON — Paradise Regained. Bk. 2. L. 228.

A grievous burthen was thy birth to me; Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 167.

As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.— SPURGEON — Gleanings among the

Sheaves. Privileges of Trial. There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.— SPURGEON — Gleanings among the

Sheaves. Cross-Bearers. 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.— SPURGEON — Gleanings among the

Sheaves. The Use of Trial.