Bible: New Testament James

Famous quotes containing the words testament james, testament and/or james:

    For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
    —Bible: New Testament James, 4:14.

    The labourer is worthy of his hire.
    —Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Luke, 10:7.

    Instructing his disciples to accept any hospitality offered to them.

    When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.
    —William James (1842–1910)