bible and theology on Testing

Refiner’s fires are used on precious metals, not for mundane elements. The refiner must hold the metal in the hottest part of the fire in order to burn off all the impurities, thus retrieving a pure...

Love is good, having wings of burning fire that flies through the saints’ breasts and hearts and consumes whatever is material and earthly but tests whatever is pure. With its fire, love makes whateve...

Holy God, we realize that You know us more intimately than we know ourselves. We come before You now asking You to show us our sin, to make us aware of our failings, to open our eyes to our brokenness...

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Trials come to prove and improve us.

To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.

Every temptation is a kind of test, but not every test is a temptation. Tests and temptations have different purposes, and they come from different places. Tests are designed to show what someone can ...

Most people fail to realize that money is both a test and trust from God.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

The ultimate test for a leader is not whether he or she makes smart decisions and takes decisive action, but whether he or she teaches others to be leaders and builds an organization that can sustain ...

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.