Quotes related to James 1:2-4
Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.
— Sam Storms
Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.
— Andy Stanley
If you only knew what God had to take me through to get me to the place where he could use me to be a blessing to other people, I doubt whether you would be willing to pay the price.
— Charles Swindoll
Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.
— Richard Sibbes
God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God.
— TB Joshua
Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us.
— Nicky Gumbel
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— St. Augustine
And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.
— Watchman Nee
No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.
— Beth Moore
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
— Ann Voskamp