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Quotes about trials
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. (Polanski Roman)
It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black. (Polanski Roman)
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. (Polanski Roman)
If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you. (Polanski Roman)
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If you have a lemon, make lemonade. (Polanski Roman)
God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials. (Polanski Roman)
The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in. (Polanski Roman)
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into. (Polanski Roman)
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble. (Polanski Roman)
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument. (Polanski Roman)
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. (Polanski Roman)
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. (Polanski Roman)
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. (Polanski Roman)
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are. (Polanski Roman)
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. (Polanski Roman)
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. (Polanski Roman)
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. (Polanski Roman)
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. (Polanski Roman)
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. (Polanski Roman)
Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you again what you are to presume. I am the judge. I am telling you that. Presume he is innocent. When you sit there, I want you to look and say to yourself, There sits an innocent man. (Polanski Roman)
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. (Polanski Roman)
A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial. (Polanski Roman)
He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in his mind before the first witness was called. It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who to intimidate; who to trust, who to flatter and court; who to challenge; when to underplay and exactly when to let out all the stops. (Polanski Roman)
If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today. (Polanski Roman)
“Nothing can trump that trial. It was hard on me, hard on the family -- very difficult for all of us. But we weathered the storm, and we are closer and better and have a keener sense of what is valuable in life.” (Polanski Roman)
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