John Owen Quotes

Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.

Christ within us, the hope of glory.

Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?

Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision--the precious rays of light shining from the throne.

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.

So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.

Beloved, we are God's children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and John were permitted to see Him in His glory. For that brief while they had no need of faith. The vision vanished, and the memory of it did not prevent them from all forsaking Him when He was arrested, or Peter from denying that he had ever known Him.

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.