John Angell James: Doing

John Angell James was British abolitionist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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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.

God , Effort , Dependency

“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.

God , Way , Understanding , Sincerity

“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.

Courage , Effort , Heart

“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.

Feeling , Knowledge , Christ , Forgetting

“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.

Love , Men , Feeling , Question