Quotes related to James 1:2-4
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
— John Donne
A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
— Mae West
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
— Edmund Burke
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.
— JC Ryle
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
— William Faulkner
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
— George Bernard Shaw
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
— CS Lewis
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
So could it be that good can come out of suffering? That God uses it to build things into us? Things we might need?
— Terri Blackstock
As Joyce Meyer candidly puts it, "Complain and Remain.
— Terri Savelle Foy
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
— Tertullian
when something painful or disagreeable happens to me, instead of a melancholy look, I answer by a smile. At first I did not always succeed, but now it has become a habit which I am glad to have acquired.
— St. Therese of Lisieux