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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.

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.

'Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.

But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,

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.

God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.