If prophets or those who divine by dreams appear among you and promise you omens or portents, and the omens or the portents declar...ed by them take place, and they say, "Let us follow other gods" (whom you have not known) "and let us serve them," you must not heed the words of those prophets or those who divine by dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you indeed love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your streng...th, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to d...iscover how to fit in. They don't mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter's behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years befo...re you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My tendency to nervousness in my younger days, in view of the fact of a number of near relatives on both my father's and mother's ...side of the house having become insane, gave some serious uneasiness. I made up my mind to overcome it.... In the cross-examination of witnesses before a crowded court-house ... I soon found I could control myself even in the worst of testing cases. Finally, in battle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today so much rebellion is aimless and demoralizing precisely because children have no values to challenge. Teenage rebellion is a... testing process in which young people try out various values in order to make them their own. But during those years of trial, error, embarrassment, a child needs family standards to fall back on, reliable habits of thought and feeling that provide security and protection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children treat their friends differently than they treat the other people in their lives. A friendship is a place for experimentin...g with new ways of handling anger and aggression. It is an arena for practicing reciprocity, testing assertiveness, and searching for compromise in ways children would not try with parents or siblings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the gold mouth of a flower the black smell of spring earth.... No more skulls on our desks but the pervasive testing of death....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest re...ality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »