John Owen Quotes

Life has a way of testing our anchors and tempting us to drift. Nevertheless, if our anchors are correctly placed in the rock of our Redeemer, they will hold—no matter the force of the wind, the strength of the tide, or the height of the waves.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

Great faith must have great trials.

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Basically, there's not a single circumstance, I pray, that can derail me from what Christ is to me and who I am because of Christ.

When every court was saying 'no,' I believe God was still saying yes. I had to somehow find that faith and reach deep down in my soul and believe in the teaching that my mother taught me as a young boy, that God can do everything but fail.

Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end: but he who has faith in the heavens above will weather any storm.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.

When you decide to walk by faith, you don't get rid of trials. You learn to overcome them.

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

That's my thing - keep filled with faith. Keep doing what you can do and I believe God will do what you can't do.

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.

I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will not endure a bitter time, when he must drink the poison of temptations. Without them, it is not possible to obtain a strong will. When he has often experienced the help of God in temptations, a man also obtains strong faith.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.