James Waddel Alexander



James Waddel Alexander (March 13, 1804 – July 31, 1859) was an American Presbyterian minister and theologian who followed in the footsteps of his father, Rev. Archibald Alexander.

Quotes

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Consolation: in Discourses on Select Topics, Addressed to the Suffering People of God (New York: Charles Scribner, 1853), p. 166.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

 * Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).


 * 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.
 * P. 30.


 * 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.
 * P. 611.