Quotes related to James 1:2-4
God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.
— Paul David Tripp
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
— CS Lewis
It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.
— Hudson Taylor
This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.
— Martin Luther
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
— Charles Stanley
Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.
— Hudson Taylor
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.
— Alfred Edersheim
The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.
— Mark Batterson
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.
— Rick Warren
There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.
— John Newton
Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.
— Steven Furtick