John Owen Quotes

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

To pray well is the better half of study.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

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.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.