Quotes related to James 4:7
I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.
— Larry Crabb
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle
— Charles Spurgeon
Being wholly given over to God now is the essential and best possible preparation for future service.
— James Montgomery Boice
There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.
— Amy Carmichael
The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.
— George Muller
Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
— Joyce Meyer
Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.
— Thomas a Kempis
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
— Thomas Paine
Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.
— Thomas Watson
In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.
— Thomas Watson
Self-love raises a sickbed vow, and love of sin will prevail against it. Trust not to a passionate resolution; it is raised in a storm and will die in a calm.
— Thomas Watson
The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.
— Joyce Meyer