Divine Test Quotes

Problems are God's resistance to create spiritual muscles.

Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.

When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.

Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.

If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

God does not forsake you. It is because he wishes to increase your glory that oftentimes he permits you to fall sick. Keep up your courage so that you may also hear him say: Do you think I have dealt with you otherwise than that you may be shown to be just?

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh]

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

We have got to be watchful, for I tell you God has sent us here to test us and to prove us. We were true in keeping our first estate. The people that are here today stood loyally by God and by Jesus and they did not flinch. If you had flinched, then you would not be here with the Priesthood upon you. The evidence that you were loyal, that you were true, and that you did not waver is to be found in the fact that you have received the Gospel-and the everlasting Priesthood.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.