Quotes related to James 1:2-4
Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
— Frederick Buechner
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
— Corrie Ten Boom
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
— John Lennon
The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.
— Paulo Coelho
None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.
— Charles Spurgeon
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
— Norman Vincent Peale
It's the impeded stream that sings.
— Wendell Berry
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
— Thomas Merton
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
— Will Rogers
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
— Charles Dickens
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
— Charles Dickens