Quotes related to James 1:2-4
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
— Arianna Huffington
We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.
— Arianna Huffington
As African American, gay drag queens, we live with more adversity and challenges.
— Shangela
This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
— Flume
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
— Pierre Corneille
Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....
— Frederick Buechner
I think that I learned something about how even tragedy can be a means of grace that I might never have come to any other way.
— Frederick Buechner
You've been a good steward of it. You've been a good steward of your pain.
— Frederick Buechner
My day has been a pleasant one. My joys have far exceeded my sorrows and my friends have brought me far more than my enemies have taken from me.
— Frederick Douglass
I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of.
— Frederick Douglass
Welcome, welcome joy, welcome sorrow, welcome pleasure, welcome pain. You are all the ingredients of life -- and with you all, life is an inestimable blessing.
— Frederick Douglass