John Angell James Quotes

#1. There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

Frank Knight

#2. A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

John Angell James

#3. I said we would be informal," said Agatha. "I did not say we would be eccentric.

Helen Simonson

#4. Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.

Missy Franklin

#5. For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because I find it beautiful.

Christian Fennesz

#6. A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. 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

#8. Oh thrice and four times happy ... those who plant cabbages.

Francois Rabelais

#9. 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 everything.

John Angell James

#10. Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas Like S'mores.

J.Z. Bingham

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

John Angell James

#12. A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

Alison Jackson

#13. Let [the wife] guard, as much as possible, against a gloomy and moody disposition, which causes her to move about with the silence and cloudiness of a spectre; for who likes to dwell in a haunted house?

John Angell James

#14. When I hear complaints about less liquidity, remember there is such a thing as too much liquidity.

Paul Volcker

#15. 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

#16. I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

Laurie Metcalf

#17. Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

John Angell James

#18. I can't believe it. You're finally mine," he said, astonishment in his voice."I was always yours.

Alison G. Bailey

#19. 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

#20. Justice is not a natural part of the lifecycle of the United States, nor is it a product of evolution; it is always the outcome of struggle.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

#21. Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there.

Ashly Lorenzana

#22. Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? 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

#23. We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

John Angell James