Quotes related to James 1:2-4
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
Nothing whatsoever but the love of Jesus could have made me face these difficulties and others which followed, for I had to purchase my happiness by heavy trials.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
We are not as yet in our true country, and as gold is tired in the fire so must our souls be purified by temptation.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Where is God in suffering? He's in it with us, and in it for us.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.
— Theodore Roosevelt