Moral Trial Quotes

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

Let the end try the man.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

I say to everyone within the sound of my voice, 'Do not fail the Lord'. We must accept the truth that the gospel principles are not on trial but that we are.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.