John Owen Quotes

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

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!!

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.

Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.

I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

Prayer can never be in excess.

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

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

He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.

Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.