Quotes related to James 1:2-4
God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.
— Oswald Chambers
Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
— Oswald Chambers
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
— Oswald Chambers
Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
— Oswald Chambers
Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.
— Rick Warren
I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.
— Rick Warren
God uses everything for good in our lives.
— Rick Warren
God has a purpose behind every problem.
— Rick Warren
God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.
— Dolly Parton
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
— Frank Herbert
God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.
— Greg Laurie
When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.
— Henri Nouwen