Quotes related to James 1:2-4
God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is difficulties that show what men are.
— Epictetus
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
— Epictetus
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.
— St. Basil
What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?
— William Saroyan
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
— St. Jerome
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