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A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

John Angell James

Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen-all heart to feel-all eye to examine and to weep-all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away.

John Angell James

Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.

John Angell James

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.

John Angell James

John Angell James

John Angell James

Born: June 6, 1785

Died: October 1, 1859 (aged 74)

Bio: John Angell James, was an English Nonconformist clergyman and writer.

Known for:

An earnest ministry the want of the times
The Anxious Inquirer After Salvation (1834)
Christian progress (1853)

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