Quotes related to James 1:2-4
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
— Henry Cloud
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
— Joseph Addison
Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.
— Samuel Rutherford
How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?
— Thomas a Kempis
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
— CS Lewis
But pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and excessive, overturns all patience.
— John Milton
Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
— Thomas a Kempis
Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!
— Joyce Meyer
Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials.
— Joyce Meyer
God's favor floats as it were over all this and finds joy in turning all those miseries to the greater profit of those who love Him. From toil He makes patience spring forth.
— Francis de Sales
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
— Francis Chan
God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.
— Thomas Watson