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James Waddel Alexander
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“There are regions beyond the most nebulous outskirts of matter; but no regions beyond the divine goodness. We may conceive of tracts where there are no worlds, but not of any where there us no God of mercy.”
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Recorded in: Consolation: in Discourses on Select Topics, Addressed to the Suffering People of God (New York: Charles Scribner, 1853), pp. 27–28.
“The true recipe for a miserable existence is this: Quarrel with Providence.”
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Recorded in: Consolation: in Discourses on Select Topics, Addressed to the Suffering People of God (New York: Charles Scribner, 1853), p. 166.
“The life-boat may have a tasteful bend and beautiful decoration, but these are not the qualities for which I prize it; it was my salvation from the howling sea! So the interest which a regenerate soul takes in the Bible, is founded on a personal application to the heart of the saving truth which it contains.”
James Waddel Alexander (1804–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.”
James Waddel Alexander (1804–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source