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“You cannot be too active as regards your own efforts; you cannot be too dependent as regards Divine grace. Do every thing as if God did nothing; depend upon God as if He did every thing.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 241.

“They who would grow in grace, must love the habitation of God's house. It is those that are planted in the courts of the Lord who shall flourish, and not those that are occasionally there.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 150.

“Show me the professing Christian whose social character is as unlovely after profession as it was before, and though there may be an increase of knowledge and of some other things connected with religion, there is no progress.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 116.

“Nothing progresses more rapidly in a heart set upon doing good than an ability to be useful. They who at first are timid, shy, awkward, in such efforts, soon acquire courage, expertness, and efficiency.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 121.

“Young converts are sometimes so taken up with religious feeling and doing as to forget the importance even, in reference to that of knowing. "Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 366.

“All who wait upon the Lord shall rise higher and higher upon the mighty pinions of strong devotion, and with the unblinking eye of faith, into the regions of heavenly-mindedness; and shall approach nearer and nearer to God, the Sun of our spiritual day.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 192.

John Angell James Quotes about God

“Try how much of the word of God you can understand, and what is more, try how much you can practice. A sincere wish and purpose to do the will of God, will be your best way to know the mind of God.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 554.

“To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful amid surrounding gloom, hopeful amidst desponding circumstances, happy in God when there is nothing else to make us happy; he who does this has indeed made great advances in the divine life.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 565.

“Justification by faith is the answer to that momentous question, " How shall man be just with God?" And the reply is, " Not by works of his own, but by faith in the work of another, that is Christ." He must have a righteousness in which to stand before a righteous and a holy, as well as a merciful God He has no such righteousness of his own. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness unto him.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 362.

John Angell James Quotes about Christ

“The study of every thing that stands connected with the death of Christ, whether it be in the types of the ceremonial law, the predictions of the prophets, the narratives of the Gospels, the doctrines of the epistles, or the sublime vision of the Apocalypse, this is the food of the soul, the manna from heaven, the bread of life. This is "meat indeed" and "drink indeed."”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 69.

“Justification is the work of Christ for us; sanctification the work of the Spirit in us; justification is perfect at once; sanctification is progressive; justification is before sanctification, and sanctification is the fruit of justification; consequently the evidence of our justification is our sanctification.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 362.

“Christ is the chief object proposed to the sinner in the New Testament. The eye that sweeps round the whole circle of Divine truth must rest in Him as the centre.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 64.

“The question is not merely what we can feel, but what we can do for Christ; not how many tears we can shed, but how many sins we can mortify; not what raptures we can experience, but what self-denial we can practice; not what happy frames we can enjoy, but what holy duties we can perform; not simply how much we can luxuriate at sermon or at sacrament, but how much we can exhibit of the mind of Jesus in our intercourse with our fellow men; not only how far above earth we can rise to the bliss of heaven, but how much of the love and purity of heaven we can bring down to earth; in short, not how much of rapt feeling we can indulge, but how much of religious principle we can bring to bear on our whole conduct.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 126.

John Angell James Quotes

“The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 314.

“There is nothing about which a young Christian should be more anxious than maintaining the spirit, the love, the practice of private prayer j and nothing which should more seriously alarm him than any disposition to neglect it.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 470.

“It is not possible to set out in the Christian profession with a more instructive or impressive idea than this — Life is the seed-time for eternity.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 380.

“Blessed Jesus, I am but a lamb, and often fear I shall never be any thing better, but perish as I am. Lord, take me in the arms of Thy power and lay me on the bosom of Thy love; though I am so poor and inconsiderable a creature I will hope in Thy pastoral power and love, that I shall not only continue, but grow, and that Thou wilt one day rejoice in me as one of the flock which Thou hast purchased with Thy own blood.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 472.

“Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 315.

“If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose, after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 115.

“Tell me how a professor spends his Sabbaths, and I will tell you in what state his soul is spiritually considered.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 524.

“Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy, and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence, and oratory.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 478.

“What is it to make progress in religion? Progress is not only action but moving onward. A door turning upon its hinges is in a state of motion, but it never advances. A chariot moving upon wheels is not only in motion, but goes onward. The conduct of some persons in religion resembles the former — there is action, but no advancement; they move, but it is on hinges, not on wheels.”

John Angell James

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 564.

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