Quotes about James

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Didn't God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom He has promised to those who love Him? James 2:5

When the apostle James was talking about faith and works against those who thought their faith was enough, and didnt want to have good works, he said, You believe God is one; you do well; the demons also believe, and tremble.

James taught me that there is nothing that shows the world what God is like more clearly than when we love our enemies. Despite the reality that throughout the New Testament the cross is not only how God saves us, it is how we witness to that salvation.

But be it ever so small in our own eyes, when we sin we also break God's law. And Scripture says, "Whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it" (James 2:10). God's law is seamless, one complete whole. So when we break any of it, we break the whole law.

Removed the "God-given" from this conception and made "reason" the sole criterion for truth.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed by them.

The Scriptures were written with built-in tension between texts and its resultant theology.

What can be more reasonable than that when crowds of them [immigrants] come here, they should be forced to renounce everything contrary to the spirit of the Constitution[?]

In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.