Quotes related to James 1:2-4
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
— Kathleen Norris
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
— Anonymous
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
— St. John Chrysostom
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
— John F. Kennedy
Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.
— Anonymous
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
— Helen Keller
I think that there are these moments of a crisis that give us the courage and encouragement to try something that actually may be better than how we were doing it before.
— Kamala Harris
Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.
— JM Coetzee
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.
— JM Coetzee
Pain is nothing, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph is the real thing. Biut of course he is wrong.
— JM Coetzee
I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...
— Jack Kerouac
It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.
— Jack Kerouac