Quotes about tests
Diane Ravitch -
Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
O.R. Melling -
You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.
Katherine J. Walden - Dare to Call Him Friend
God promises to be our Strong Tower, our Protector, our Champion, and our Advocate. He also promises that if we call Him friend we will see persecution; we will suffer, and we will go through the fires of sanctification. He promises to shake us out of our complacency. There is no safer place to be than in His presence, but He is not the God of the complacent.
Shannon L. Alder -
Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.
Deyth Banger -
So reality your mother builds you a room in which to run and test, your father give you the stuff on which to handle. Tests and everything needed and you just upgrade yourself!
Danielle Esplin - Give It Back
I hate reading poems—school made me hate them. I’d spend hours interpreting one, just to read the memorandum and realize I’d be fucked during exams. I remember making a little asterisk next to every question I struggled with, and at the end of the paper, I’d realize I was looking at the fucking Milky Way.
José Antonio Bowen - Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
Life has always been an open-book exam
Kayko Tamaki -
If we are put here on this earth for our learning, then it's safe to say that life is a school and there are going to be tests.
Joann Sfar - The Rabbi's Cat
You've been the rabbi here for thirty years and these guys who've never set foot here want to decide who should be rabbi or not. And to lead prayer in Hebrew for Jews who speak Arabic, they want you to write in French. So I say they're nuts.
James Cooley -
This life is the only opportunity we will have to worship God in the midst of trials and tests. Heaven will be perfect.
Latika Teotia -
Are you comprehending what God is trying to teach through those tests and trials which you are being made to undergo time and again??? If you are being put in a situation again and again, you must realize that He is trying to teach you something. It is high time that you became wise enough to understand, learn and deal with it once and for all instead of pushing them under the carpet.We are destined to learn a few lessons from which we can’t just escape.
T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.
Sam Ervin -
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Shannon L. Alder -
What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.
Marcia Lebhar -
Where do people...and why do people...have to wait, and what tends to happen when they do? So far, I have one observation to offer. It seems that waiting is a crucible. It tests us. It's when God's people have to wait that they get in trouble. The alternative to waiting for God is idolatry.
Norhafsah Hamid - Back to Basics
Trials or little tests contain lessons to be learnt.
Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Remember that any desire is tested; the greater the desire, the greater the tests.
Amy Chua -
There are many things the Chinese do differently from Westerners. There’s the question of extra credit, for example. One time, Lulu came home and told me about a math test she’d just taken. She said she thought it had gone extremely well, which is why she didn’t feel the need to do the extra-credit problems.I was speechless for a second, uncomprehending. “Why not?” I asked. “Why didn’t you do them?”“I didn’t want to miss recess.”A fundamental tenet of being Chinese is that you always do all of t
S.A. Tawks - Misadventurous
Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.
Sunday Adelaja -
Every time we face tests and trials, God is instigating us to action
Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway
This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so much more to embrace.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes
If you couldn't sense heat, you'd not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if you were stagnant—unchallenged by unpredictable flares—you would never grow capable of shielding yourself from harsher flames. So yes, life was meant to drag you straight through the fire.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.
Thomas Christopher Greene -
Oh, he was a decent-enough high school student, good grades and well-liked, but his test scores were nothing to write home about. He might as well have Christmas-treed the math test.
Nora Roberts - Tribute
You love tests?""Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
my Teacher -
teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I like to correct the tests.
Allan Dare Pearce - Paris in April
I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.
Kate McGahan - Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
When someone has had an exceptionally challenging or difficult earthly life, those challenges are often by design. Our Master will test those who are ready to expand. The struggles are designed to increase one’s strength and to be a springboard into higher realms.
Nnedi Okorafor - Home
Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was not the way final exams were supposed to go.
C.B. Cook - Paralyzed Dreams
God always has a plan. This isn't his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it.
Shannon L. Alder -
The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don’t is because my angels keep me standing up.
Sunday Adelaja -
Our civil position should not depend on the tests and problems we go through
Anthony T. Hincks -
When you do exams you never want to be the one who finishes first and you never want to be the one who finishes last.
Shannon L. Alder -
The only person I compete with is Satan. If that happens to be you, then could you please move out of the way? You’re standing in Christ’s spot.
Sunday Adelaja -
Tests and persecutions will eventually lead to deliverance from bondage and make us stronger if we respond right to them
Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway
Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.