#trial

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#faith #suffering #trials #faith

Joseph’s trials were unjust, inexplicable and heartrending. Yet Joseph knew God, and he knew that God had a plan. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#injustice #trials #faith

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#juries #lawyers #only #real #trial

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#before #camera #each #exactly #fall

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#come #eating #everyone #i #i do

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#cancer #divorce #dying #god #grief

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. ↗

— Joan Didion

#definition #extraterrestrial #fancy #higher #life

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#build #copy #could #effort #factories

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#could #development #facilities #focused #had

Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#every #example #go #inside #life