John Owen Quotes

Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

Any false religion ultimately is a deception of Satan, to try and keep people from the only way to Heaven, which is through faith in Jesus Christ.

No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant.

A dream itself is but a shadow.

As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A, B, C, D, and then E. I like the aura that fiction has, how it can conjure up dream imagery. It's a sort of emotional speculation that you can shape and work with.

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.

If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

I was not born to get stuff done. I was born to dream it and then move towards it.

Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality.