John Owen Quotes

One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.

God wants us to practice on Earth what we're going to do forever in eternity.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

...our concern is more about going to heaven than loving the King.

Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.

I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.

It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.

Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.

The bottom line is in heaven!

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer?

No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No time. Does it need time to be religious?" "Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odéon Bar and all that.

The question is not, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The question is, "Do you want God?"

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

Lukewarm people think about life on earth much more often than eternity in heaven.

If they aren't going to advance God's kingdom, I don't care to help them advance their kingdom.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.