John Owen Quotes

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.