{"quotes":[{"text":"Through many tributions, we begin to search for the truth.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","inspiration","search","trials","tribulations","truth"],"id":23691,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is, in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his protecting arm.","author":"Solomon Northup","tags":["faith","god","prayer","religion","spirituality","stress","trials-and-tribulations","tribulations","worry"],"id":53254,"author_id":"Solomon+Northup"},{"text":"Through our trials and tribulations, our stint in the wilderness of our lives, if you will, we come face to face with our darker traits, do battle with them, and round off the rougher edges of our character in the process.","author":"Auliq-Ice","tags":["challenges","challenges-in-life","failure","inspirational","learning-from-mistakes","life-challenges","life-lessons","life-trials","motivational","opportunities-in-life","problem-solving","problems-in-life","self-improvement","self-realization","success","tribulations"],"id":61595,"author_id":"Auliq-Ice"},{"text":"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adversity","affliction","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","austerity","be-determined","be-persistent","be-tenacious","carry-on","challenge","challenges","continue","deprivation","destitution","determination","difficult","difficulties","dire-straits","distress","doggedness","dream","dreamer","dreamers","endurance","entrepreneur","entrepreneurs","firmness","follow-through","funny","give-up","go-on","go-the-distance","hammer-away","hang-in-there","hang-on","hardship","hardships","hilarious","hold-on","humor","humorous","humour","impecuniousness","indefatigability","inspiration","inspire","intransigence","joke","jokes","keep-at-it","keep-going","keep-on","leave-no-stone-unturned","mental-strength","mentally-strong","misery","misfortune","motivate","motivation","need","neediness","never-give-up","not-take-no-for-an-answer","obduracy","obstinacy","pain","patience","penury","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","pertinacity","plod-on","plug-away","poverty","press-ahead","press-on","privation","problem","problems","purposefulness","quotations","quotes","resoluteness","resolution","resolve","satire","soldier-on","stamina","stand-fast","stand-firm","startup","startups","staunchness","stay-the-course","staying-power","steadfastness","stick-it-out","stoic","stoicism","stoics","stop-at-nothing","strength","strength-of-purpose","strong","struggle-on","stubbornness","suffer","suffering","tenacity","tirelessness","travails","trial","trials","trials-and-tribulations","tribulation","tribulations","trouble","venture-capitalist","venture-capitalists","want","wretchedness"],"id":63742,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["change","pain","transformation","tribulations"],"id":74875,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"When we observe trials and tribulations in our world, there's even more reason to lighten the heavy load. Sometimes life gets tough and it's disheartening. Never mind happiness; what we genuinely need is joy! God didn't intend for us to be sad or serious all of the time. His word in Proverbs 17:22 (ESV) says, “A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.","author":"Dana Arcuri","tags":["adversity","devotional","encouragement","faith","good-medicine","harvest-of-hope","heart","hope","inspirational","joyful","proverbs","scriptures","trials","tribulations"],"id":80456,"author_id":"Dana+Arcuri"},{"text":"Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry awhile. Don't try to find a sunbeam where a shroud of darkness encloses me. Let me mourn. Then, after the storm, when the tears have run dry and my eyes choose to open, I will look for your rainbow of hope.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["anguish","cry","crying","darkness","despair","gloom","hardships","heartache","hope","hurt","misery","mourning","pain","rainbow","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","sadness","sunbeam","trials","tribulations"],"id":98478,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Life is hard and unfair. It is cruel and heartless, painful, trying, disappointing, unapologetic, and frequently downright awful. But that's not important. What's important is that through it all you learn how much you need your Heavenly Father and how much your friends need you.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["friends","hard","hardships","heartaches","heavenly-father","life","life-lessons","richelle","richelle-goodrich","struggles","trials","tribulations","unfair"],"id":146538,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Trials or little tests contain lessons to be learnt.","author":"Norhafsah Hamid","tags":["lessons","lessons-learnt","tests","tests-of-life","trials","tribulations"],"id":153245,"author_id":"Norhafsah+Hamid"},{"text":"Through many tribulations, we begin to search for the truth.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian-life","search","trials","tribulations","truth","wise-sayings"],"id":155205,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}