Quotes related to James 1:2-4
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
— Charles Swindoll
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
— Walt Disney
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
— Zig Ziglar
Experience is a teacher, a brutal teacher. But you learn, my God, do you learn.
— CS Lewis
Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.
— Brian Tracy
I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
— Marianne Williamson
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
— Helen Keller
I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.
— Marcus Aurelius
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
— Napoleon Hill
Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
— George Muller
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
— Francis de Sales