“Luck!” There is no such thing in our world, none in nature, none in human affairs. Luck means that an event has no cause at all. It is a bad word – a heathen term. Drop it from your vocabulary! Trust nothing to luck, and expect nothing from it. Avoid all practical dependence upon it or its kindred words: fate, chance, fortune. Never forget your dependence upon God. He can exalt you to prosperity – or sink you into the lowest depth of adversity. He can make everything to which you set your hand to prosper – or to fail. Devoutly acknowledge this. Abhor the atheism that shuts God out of His own world!
— John Angell James (1785–1859), Prediger
Topics: Guidance & God's Will, Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Occasions: For Reflection
John Angell James
John Angell James war ein englischer kongregationalistischer Prediger und Schriftsteller, der von 1805 bis zu seinem Tod 1859 an der Carrs Lane Chapel in Birmingham wirkte. Bekanntheit erlangte er durch weitverbreitete Erbauungsschriften wie „The Anxious Inquirer“ sowie durch seinen Einsatz für persönliche Bekehrung, Seelsorge und Ernsthaftigkeit im Predigtdienst. Heutigen Bibellesern bieten seine Schriften praxisnahe Anregungen für die persönliche Glaubenspraxis und das geistliche Leben.
All quotes by John Angell James (26)
Blaise Pascal
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel
God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.
Craig Groeschel
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
John Henry Newman
Chance is the pseudonym God chooses when he wants to remain incognito.
Albert Schweitzer
What was not in my plan lay in God's plan.
Edith Stein
Outside the will of God, There's nothing I want. Inside the will of God there's nothing I fear.
A.W. Tozer