John Owen Quotes

There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

It's funny how God will just keep using you, and our motto around our family forever has been, 'Just let Him use you.'

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary of how God works with the specific things that He does, and we don't know how to align ourselves with what He is doing so that we can be His vehicle on the earth to deliver a miracle.

Government is a trust from God, and verily government will be at the day of resurrection a cause of inquiry, unless he who hath taken it be worthy of it and have acted justly and done good.

The authority of all magistrates (with however great power and sovereignty they be vested) is as it were hedged in by these two limits set by God himself, namely Piety and Charity

First of all things, learn to know and love that God to who ye have a double obligation; first, that He made you a man; and next that He made you a little God to sit on his throne and rule over other men.

The reaction of people of faith to this tendency of democracy to obscure the divine authority behind government should not be resignation to it, but the resolution to combat it as effectively as possible…. The Lord…did justice – through His minister, the state.

The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.

I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in His service, and for His Glory!!

Jesus didn't accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing.

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.