Quotes related to James 1:2-4
God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.
— Matt Chandler
But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention
— Max Lucado
Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.
— Charles Stanley
God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.
— Kevin DeYoung
In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
— Martha Graham
We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
— Albert Camus
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.
— Maya Angelou
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
— St. John Chrysostom
If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.
— Max Lucado
circumstances—not necessarily in holiness and radiant light, but often in confusion among people with deep problems.
— Tim Stafford