Quotes related to James 1:2-4
Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.
— Oprah Winfrey
A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.
— Oscar Romero
If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.
— Oswald Chambers
God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.
— Richard Sibbes
God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.
— Rick Warren
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.
— Ignatius of Antioch
Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
— Jerry Bridges
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.
— Kevin DeYoung
We act like God's only good when the outcome is good. We say, 'We've got a good God because I've got a good job.' But what if I don't have a good job? Does that mean God's not good anymore?
— Max Lucado
We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.
— Alistair Begg