Quotes related to James 1:2-4
When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.
— Anne Graham Lotz
Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.
— Henri Nouwen
If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
— Jonah Hill
When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.
— Dale Carnegie
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.
— Thomas Merton
If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.
— Nelson Mandela
God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
— Rick Warren
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
— John Calvin
When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.
— Bishop TD Jakes
If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross