Quotes related to James 1:2-4
The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
— Charles Stanley
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
...certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.
— Charles Dickens
Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
— William Faulkner
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.
— William Faulkner
I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.
— Joel Osteen
Life is 100% what happens to me and 90% of how react to it.
— Charles Swindoll
Life breaks all of us sometimes…but…some grow strong at broken places.
— Ernest Hemingway
Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.
— Pema Chodron
In principle this implies something else, something harder to grasp, namely, that his whole suffering—a suffering that goes to the utter limits—follows from and actually expresses his eternal, triune joy.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar