Tribulation Quotes

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. (Lucretius)
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them. View quote
Matthew Henry
Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians. View quote
Tim LaHaye
The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory. View quote
Tim LaHaye
While we could study any of the world's dictators to see how they gained control over their people, Hitler is probably the best known and most well documented example. I believe his persecution of the Jews was Satan's trial run for the end time events coming upon us soon including the 3½ years of "great tribulation” (4D). Hitler's method of getting Germans to hate and then kill the Jews should be studied carefully. I am convinced similar methods will be used to bring persecution against any who will not go along with Satan's plans for his New World Order, especially Christians and anyone else who won't take the mark (Revelation 13-14). View quote
Kent Hovind
Jesus told His disciples all about the tribulation they WOULD have to endure and NONE of them ran off to a cabin in the woods and began gathering food and ammunition! They ALL went out to win souls like crazy! They understood full well about the "prize” offered to those who endured to the end! View quote
Kent Hovind
Christians today disagree on the sequence of these events but my 44-year study has convinced me that the historic position that the church held to for 2,000 years is right! They taught that the "rapture” (the catching away of living believers when the Lord returns) happens AFTER the tribulation but BEFORE the wrath of God falls IN the Day of the Lord as shown above. The majority of believers in the world today agree. The "pre-trib” rapture idea, started by a 15 year old Scottish girl in 1830, that I held to for 39 years and that is held to by a VERY vocal minority today is WRONG, wishful thinking and will disappoint MANY causing them to "fall away.”. View quote
Kent Hovind
He saith: Accuse not self overdone much, deeming that thy tribulation and thy woe is all for thy fault; for I will not that thou be heavy or sorrowful indiscreetly. For I tell thee, howsoever thou do, thou shalt have woe. And therefore I will that thou wisely know thy penance; and shalt see in truth that all thy living is penance profitable. View quote
Julian of Norwich
Though we, by the wrath and the contrariness that is in us, be now in tribulation, distress, and woe, as falleth to our blindness and frailty, yet are we securely safe by the merciful keeping of God, that we perish not. But we are not blissfully safe, in having of our endless joy, till we be all in peace and in love: that is to say, full pleased with God and with all His works, and with all His judgments, and loving and peaceable with our self and with our even-Christians and with all that God loveth, as love beseemeth. And this doeth God's Goodness in us. (Julian of Norwich)
It is known that afore miracles come sorrow and anguish and tribulation; and that is for that we should know our own feebleness and our mischiefs that we are fallen in by sin, to meeken us and make us to dread God and cry for help and grace. Miracles come after that, and they come of the high Might, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, shewing His virtue and the joys of Heaven so far at it may be in this passing life: and that to strengthen our faith and to increase our hope, in charity. Wherefore it pleaseth Him to be known and worshipped in miracles. Then signifieth He thus: He willeth that we be not borne over low for sorrow and tempests that fall to us: for it hath ever so been afore miracle-coming. View quote
Julian of Norwich
Here may we see that we have verily of Nature to hate sin, and we have verily of Grace to hate sin. For Nature is all good and fair in itself, and Grace was sent out to save Nature and destroy sin, and bring again fair nature to the blessed point from whence it came: that is God; with more nobleness and worship by the virtuous working of Grace. For it shall be seen afore God by all His Holy in joy without end that Nature hath been assayed in the fire of tribulation and therein hath been found no flaw, no fault. Thus are Nature and Grace of one accord: for Grace is God, as Nature is God: He is two in manner of working and one in love; and neither of these worketh without other: they be not disparted. View quote
Julian of Norwich
True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. View quote
William Arthur Ward
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation. View quote
John Heyl Vincent
During the tribulation there will be a national turning of Israel to the Lord; they will walk in righteousness. ... God established an everlasting covenant with Israel and it will be of everlasting duration. View quote
Paul Enns
Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing. (Siddharth Katragadda)
We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith. View quote
Joyce Meyer
To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
But here shewed our courteous Lord the moaning and the mourning of the soul, signifying thus: I know well thou wilt live for my love, joyously and gladly suffering all the penance that may come to thee; but in as much as thou livest not without sin thou wouldest suffer, for my love, all the woe, all the tribulation and distress that might come to thee. And it is sooth. View quote
Julian of Norwich
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin