Quotes related to James 1:2-4
God, deliver me from sullen saints.
— Teresa of Avila
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
— Thomas Watson
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
— John Piper
Our problems are God's opportunities.
— Joyce Meyer
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
— Oswald Chambers
God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.
— Rick Warren
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.
— Adrian Rogers
Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply.
— AW Tozer
God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.
— Billy Graham
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.
— Billy Graham
Our extremities are God's opportunities.
— Charles Spurgeon