Quotes related to James 4:7
Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
— Judah Smith
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
— Catherine of Siena
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination.
— CS Lewis
As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.
— Wayne Dyer
Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
— RC Sproul
Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.
— Francis de Sales
The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.
— Sam Storms
In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."
— Alphonsus Liguori
We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
— CS Lewis
If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.
— E Stanley Jones
I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.
— E Stanley Jones