John Angell James: Quotes about God

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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.

“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.

“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.

“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.