James Ussher Quotes

• If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.

  James Ussher

  Smile, Winning, People

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• There is no dallying with God .

  James Ussher

  Procrastination

  James Ussher, Joseph Crabb, Stanley Gower (1660). “Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640: Of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification, by Christ. By the Right Reverend James Usher, late Bishop of Armagh in Ireland. Published by Jos: Crabb. Will: Ball. Tho: Lye. ministers of the Gospel, who writ them from his mouth, and compared their copies together. With a preface concerning the life of the pious author, by the Reverend Stanly Gower, sometime chaplain to the said bishop. Now minister in Dorchester”, p.9

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• We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because we pray to that God that heareth prayer, and is the rewarder of all that come unto Him; and in His name, to whom God denieth nothing; and, therefore, howsoever we are not always answered at the present, or in the same kind that we desire, yet, sooner or later, we are sure to receive even above that we are able to ask or think, if we continue to sue unto Him according to His will.

  James Ussher

  Prayer, Thinking, Names

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• I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

  James Ussher

  World, May, Study

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• Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.

  James Ussher

  Lust, Energy, Vitality

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• Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

  James Ussher

  Prison, Shut Up, Conscience

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