Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?
I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me.
That's what we do on "MasterChef," on "Junior." No school teachers, no parents, let it go. You're going to go on a challenge. We're going to go to hell and back, and we're going to have some bumps.
Whenever you don't catch a ball in a game, you really find out who loves you and who doesn't.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.
The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.
I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts.
You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.
Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.
She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.
Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them
That’s how you tell what a man’s really made of. It’s one thing for a man to be big and brave and kill a spider. Any man could do that. Trailin’ after a woman when she’s shopping for thongs and push-up bras is a whole other category of man. And then if you want to see how far you can go with it, you ask him to carry one of those little pink bags they give you.
