Quotes related to James 1:2-4
God only allows pain if He's allowing something new to be born.
— Ann Voskamp
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
— Anne Lamott
It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.
— Ayn Rand
In our adversity, God shouts to us.
— CS Lewis
Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.
— Joel Osteen
Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
— Oswald Chambers
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
— Joyce Meyer
Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.
— Joel Osteen
I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.
— Charles Swindoll
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.
— Hudson Taylor