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(James 4:12/ Phillips translation)   How can you be so silly as to imagine that you are your neighbor's judge?

( Thomas a Kempis) Man proposes, but God disposes

(James 4:4/ The Living Bible)  I say it again, that if your aim is to enjoy the evil pleasures of the unsaved world, you cannot also be a friend of God

(James 4:14/ The Living Bible) How do you know what is going to happen tomorrow? For the length of your lives is as uncertain as the morning fog-now you see it, soon it is gone

( Ray Stedman)   These wars and fights among Christian brothers and sisters are the result of prayerlessness, which is itself a demonstration of faithlessness. When faith fails, prayer fails, then fighting, arguments, hatred, and distrust break out

(Ray Stedman) People who criticize others have put themselves above the Word of God and have assumed God's role as judge. Instead of letting the Word of God judge themselves, they become the judge of others