| Author |
Quotes |
| John Owen | I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they are in the right in religion than the inclination they find in themselves to hate and persecute them whom they suppose to be in the wrong. |
| John Owen | It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ that constraineth us to live to Him. |
| John Owen | Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373 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 | Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it. |
| John Owen | Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him. |
| John Owen | Feast of Luke the Evangelist He who prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays. |
| John Owen | Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life. He that cannot endure to live to God will as little endure to bear of being born of God. |
| John Owen | Feast of Matthias the Apostle I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and frequent in them, who gives not alms according to his ability. |
| John Owen | If errors must be tolerated, say some, then men may do what they please, without control. No means, it seems, must be used to reclaim them. But is gospel conviction no means? Hath the sword of discipline no edge? Is there no means of instruction in the New Testament established, but a prison and a halter? |
| John Owen | Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until he be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so will he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death. |
| John Owen | Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves; but our not forgiving others proves that we ourselves are not forgiven. |
| John Owen | It is sottish ignorance and infidelity to suppose that, under the Gospel, there is no communication between God and us but what is, on His part, in laws, commands, and promises; and an ours, by obedience performed in our strength and upon our convictions unto them. To exclude hence the real internal operations of the Holy Ghost, is to destroy the Gospel. |
| John Owen | Feast of All Souls To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see It through a little cranny. |
| John Owen | Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern , Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603 It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened. |
| John Oxenham | Some people are reluctant to consider the future, arguing that it must be left to solve its own problems and to shape its own beliefs. In all right efforts for the future, religion must be given first place. No provision to secure peace or just social principles can be worth much unless the foremost aim be to establish the Kingdom of God. It is not the minds and bodies only of generations to come that have to be remembered, but their immortal souls. |
| John Powell | By afflictions, God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go. |
| John Ruskin | To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live. |
| John Ruskin | Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles God always gives us strength enough, and sense enough, for every thing that He wants us to do. |
| John S Whale | Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection -- the Resurrection explains the Gospels. |
| John S Whale | The Gospels cannot explain the Resurrection; it is the Resurrection which alone explains the Gospels. |
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