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James Waddel Alexander was an American Presbyterian minister and theologian who followed in the footsteps of his father, Rev. Archibald Alexander. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. March 1804 – 31. July 1859
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Famous James Waddel Alexander Quotes

“There are regions beyond the most nebulous outskirts of matter; but no regions beyond the Divine goodness. We may conceive of tracts where there are no worlds, but not of any where there us no God of mercy.”

James Waddel Alexander

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 274.

“Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.”

James Waddel Alexander

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 611.

“The life-boat may have a tasteful bend and beautiful decoration, but these are not the qualities for which I prize it; it was my salvation from the howling sea! So the interest which a regenerate soul takes in the Bible, is founded on a personal application to the heart of the saving truth which it contains.”

James Waddel Alexander

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 30.

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