Quotes related to James 1:2-4
To succeed in life you need three things: A back bone; A wish bone; A funny bone.
— Reba McEntire
No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.
— John Ortberg
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
— John Calvin
It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.
— Lee Strobel
Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.
— Patrick Lencioni
There is not other relation to God save that which appears upon the road along which Job travelled.
— Karl Barth
Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.
— Karl Barth
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?
— John Adams
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
— John Donne
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
— Khalil Gibran
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
— Livy
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
— Marcus Aurelius