John Henry Jowett Quotes

• God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

  John Henry Jowett

  Comfort, Doe, Comforter

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• Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.

  John Henry Jowett

  Inspirational, Life, Gratitude

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• It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world?

  John Henry Jowett

  Spiritual, Prayer, Fighting

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• Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

  John Henry Jowett

  Wings, Feet, Giving

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• Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

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  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Spiritual

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• ...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

  John Henry Jowett

  Prayer, Ministry, Sometimes

  John Henry Jowett (1922). “God - Our Contemporary”

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• Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing.

  John Henry Jowett

  Christian, Accomplish Nothing, Ministry

  "The Preacher, His Life and Work".

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• It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

  John Henry Jowett

  Sorrow, Cultivation, Multitudes

  John Henry Jowett (1910). “The School of Calvary”

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• It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

  John Henry Jowett

  Spiritual, Prayer, Fighting

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• Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

  John Henry Jowett

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thank You

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• May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

  John Henry Jowett

  Tree, Life Is Like, May

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• All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

  John Henry Jowett

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Men

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• The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate a face of brass, but the face of infinite good will. Yet when I was a child, many a picture has made me think of God as suspicious, inhumanly watchful, always looking round the corner to catch me at the fall. That "eye," placed in the sky of many a picture, and placed there to represent God, filled my heart with chilling fear. . . . Heaven overflows with good will toward us! Our God not only wishes good, he wills it!

  John Henry Jowett

  God, Children, Fall

  John Henry Jowett (0101). “My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year”, p.363, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

  John Henry Jowett

  Home, House, Needs

  John Henry Jowett (1902). “Thirsting for the Springs /.”

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• If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.

  John Henry Jowett

  Dream, Men, Desire

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• Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.

  John Henry Jowett

  Kings, House, Masters

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• The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

  John Henry Jowett

  Trying, Elements, Defeat

  John Henry Jowett (1916). “The Whole Armour of God”

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• Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

  John Henry Jowett

  Thanksgiving, Thankfulness, Fortitude

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• Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

  John Henry Jowett

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Thankfulness

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