Quotes related to James 1:2-4
Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.
— Kristen Heitzmann
Forget what I said. None of that matters, you know why? Because it's still a choice. Everyone gets hurt. It's what you do with it that matters.' 'Can you change how you feel?' 'No. But you can change how you act.
— Kristen Heitzmann
The human capacity for suffering was like that for joy. It could only have the greatest impact in small doses. After that, mind and body could no longer take it in.
— Kristen Heitzmann
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
— CS Lewis
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
— Samuel Rutherford
Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.
— Rick Warren
Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Adversity reminds men of religion.
— Livy
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
— Vance Havner
But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!
— Dinesh D'Souza