And let endurance do its work perfectly, so that you may be altogether perfect, and in no respect deficient.

Let no one say, when he is tempted, "It is God who is tempting me!" For God, who cannot be tempted to do wrong, does not himself tempt any one.

Now do you really want to understand, you foolish man, how it is that faith without actions leads to nothing?

No human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless plague! It is charged with deadly poison!

Can a fig tree, my Brothers, bear olives? or a vine bear figs? No, nor can a brackish well give good water.

That is not the wisdom which comes from above; no, it is earthly, animal, devilish.

Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

Do you suppose there is no meaning in the passage of Scripture which asks--'Is envy to result from the longings of the Spirit which God has implanted within you?'

No; the gift that God gives is for a nobler end; and that is why it is said--'God is opposed to the haughty, but gives help to the humble.'

And yet you do not know what your life will be like to-morrow! For you are but a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.

Above all things, my Brothers, never take an oath, either by heaven, or by earth, or by anything else. With you let 'Yes' suffice for yes, and 'No' for no, so that you may escape condemnation.

Elijah was only a man like ourselves, but, when he prayed fervently that it might not rain, no rain fell upon the land for three years and a half.