Quotes related to James 1:15
It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself
— Wayne Dyer
Marriages performed within,' read the sign next to the coffeehouse door, underneath in small letters a verse that combined warning with a sales pitch: 'When lawless lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin.
— Toni Morrison
If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!
— George Whitefield
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
— Henry David Thoreau
Evil and sin weave their way into every aspect of God's creation and every dimension of human personhood and life on earth.
— Christopher Wright
When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!
— Victor Hugo
and if you fall as Lucifer fell, you fall in flames! And so it must be, for so it is written on the doorway to Paradise, that those who falter and those who fall must pay the price!
— Victor Hugo
Sin is the strength of death and the death of strength.
— Thomas Adams
The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.
— Thomas Watson
The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.
— Thomas Watson
Affliction only reaches the body, but sin goes further: it poisons the fancy, disorders the affections. Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive. Affliction can but take away the life; sin takes away the soul.
— Thomas Watson
So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust
— Thomas Watson