| Author |
Quotes |
| John Newton | I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that he is indeed our Master. |
| John Oman | God's manifestation of Himself has not been for our personal experience only, but all creation, and all time, all mankind and all man's life upon the earth, are manifestations of God; and the man turns to barrenness and folly who limits himself to his own narrow thought and futile endeavours. All human experience is revelation if the great purpose of life is the discipline of souls, and the one unchanging guidance for all men is duty. |
| John Oman | Only on recognising the true, may we lay down our task of searching further for truth; and only on being satisfied that we have found the holy, are we justified in submitting to its guidance. The duty of following truth at all hazards is not altered, and it is only a false wisdom and prudence which shuns the search. The one chief reason why so much more may be revealed to babes than to the wise and prudent is still simply that, with less calculation and prejudice, they entirely abandon themselves to the leading of truth. |
| John Owen | Beginning a Lenten series on prayer: If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them. |
| John Owen | It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much of heaven may be obtained in holiness on the earth. |
| John Owen | Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace. |
| John Owen | Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. |
| John Owen | That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. |
| John Owen | They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, and corrupt nature, is against faith to God by Christ; so the next great opposition made against us, is against our love. |
| John Owen | Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith. |
| John Owen | Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end. |
| John Owen | In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart. |
| John Owen | Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven , did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sins. And that will also bring us higher, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace |
| John Owen | I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon, though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life. |
| John Owen | Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 All love in general hath an assimilating efficacy; it casts the mind into the mould of the thing beloved Every approach unto God by ardent love and delight is transfiguring. |
| John Owen | See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace. |
| John Owen | Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us. |
| John Owen | That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the need for Him. |
| John Owen | Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958 We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works. |
| John Owen | Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to His mind and will. |
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