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“The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.”

Suffering Greater Subjects Goodness Trials Combat Comforting Exaltation

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.”

People Needs Giving Today Greater Please Areas Give Me Asking Congress Caring Trials Idiot Sensitive Agency Bureaucracy New Orleans

Author:Aaron Broussard

“For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.”

Way Littles Said War Soul Desire Perfect Greater Praying And Love Soldier Riches Trials

Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“if we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.”

Ifs Heart Walks Greater Exercise Trials Hold Fast Walking With God Uprightness

Author:George Muller

“The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.”

Song Religious Greater Gratitude Encouragement Trials Intense Our Future Joyful

Book:The treasury of David: containing an original exposition of the Book of psalms

Source: The treasury of David: containing an original exposition of the Book of psalms

“For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors.”

Ifs Kind Problem Courses Interesting Greater Prove Philosophical Victim Jew Trials Features Traitor Nazism Accusation Blackmail Stalinism Questions Asked False Accusation

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.”

People Ifs Long Sometimes Enough Given Doubt Greater Evidence Trials Bored Boredom Civilisation Barbarism Alexandria

Book:Civilisation

Source: Civilisation

“Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.”

Knows Men Firsts Stills States Lost Heaven Virtue Greater Bears Weakness Angel Flesh Trials Paradise Divinity Rescue Tempted Tranquil Angel In Heaven

Book:The Imitation of Christ

Source: The Imitation of Christ

“Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life's trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos.”

Giving Looks Past Christ Ability Results Greater Benefits Chaos Calm Lifestyle Trials Midst Selflessness Past Life Gazing

Book:So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There

Source: So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There