I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
JOHN OWEN Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food ...
JOHN OWEN But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.�...
JOHN OWEN The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it...
JOHN OWEN Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day fro...
JOHN OWEN See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to b...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Christ claims our help in many a st...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 All love in general hath an assimi...
JOHN OWEN I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual l...
JOHN OWEN Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went t...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres...
JOHN OWEN God sometimes marvelously raiseth the souls of his saints with some close and near approaches unto t...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 We can have no power from Christ unless ...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 If ever we intend to take ...
JOHN OWEN Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love f...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 You have your season, and you have but your seaso...
JOHN OWEN They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, a...
JOHN OWEN That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.
JOHN OWEN Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
JOHN OWEN Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedi...
JOHN OWEN Beginning a Lenten series on prayer: If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would ...
JOHN OWEN Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavo...
JOHN OWEN Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CH...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 That fear which keeps ...
JOHN OWEN He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. H...
JOHN OWEN Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hat...
JOHN OWEN In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart.
JOHN OWEN It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much...
JOHN OWEN The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements,...
JOHN OWEN Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and throu...
JOHN OWEN Sometimes truth is lost first in a church, and then holiness and sometimes the decay or hatred of ho...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Mora...
JOHN OWEN Some relate ... that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they...
JOHN OWEN It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dar...
JOHN OWEN Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what li...
JOHN OWEN It is to no purpose to boast of Christ, if we have not an evidence of His graces in our hearts and l...
JOHN OWEN Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is ...
JOHN OWEN Some go to the light of nature and the use of "right reason" (that is, their own) as their guides; a...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 Religion is the same that ever it was,...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 God hath work to do in...
JOHN OWEN I do not know a warning that I judge more necessary to be given to those who are called this day, th...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 Faith is the leading grace in all our sp...
JOHN OWEN There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.
JOHN OWEN God could, if I may say so, more easily have made a new world of innocent creatures, and have govern...
JOHN OWEN Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Phi...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Pr...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 None use institute...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 "Secret" sins, ...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
JOHN OWEN When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out t...
JOHN OWEN Feast of All Souls To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it...
JOHN OWEN It is sottish ignorance and infidelity to suppose that, under the Gospel, there is no communication ...
JOHN OWEN Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves; but our not forgiving others pro...
JOHN OWEN Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, ...
JOHN OWEN If errors must be tolerated, say some, then men may do what they please, without control. No means, ...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089 I whould be very sorr...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Matthias the Apostle I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and f...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Luke the Evangelist He who prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays.
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemorati...
JOHN OWEN Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.
JOHN OWEN Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 He that is alive may know that he was born, though he kn...
JOHN OWEN Ability of speech in time and season is an especial gift of God, and that eminently with respect unt...
JOHN OWEN Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firm...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 I have seen and rea...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnograp...
JOHN OWEN It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ tha...
JOHN OWEN I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 No heart can conceive tha...
JOHN OWEN Feast of All Saints Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that h...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop o...
JOHN OWEN That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the...
JOHN OWEN The world, indeed, seems to be weary of the just, righteous, holy ways of God, and of that exactness...
JOHN OWEN Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 Then are we servants of...
JOHN OWEN We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable l...
JOHN OWEN We, according to the Scriptures, plainly believe that Christ hath, by his righteousness, merited for...
JOHN OWEN Secondly, the proper counsel and intention of God in sending his Son into the world to die was, that...
JOHN OWEN Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto marty...
JOHN OWEN The death of Christ is their meritorious cause; the Spirit of God and his effectual grace their effi...
JOHN OWEN And, therefore, seeing he doth not intercede and pray for every one, he did not die for every one.
JOHN OWEN Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is n...
JOHN OWEN Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die ...
JOHN OWEN I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them tha...
JOHN OWEN In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, ...
JOHN OWEN The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
JOHN OWEN We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital pr...
JOHN OWEN Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day fro...
JOHN OWEN All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit
JOHN OWEN When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be...
JOHN OWEN The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the f...
JOHN OWEN Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food ...
JOHN OWEN The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it
JOHN OWEN In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, ...
JOHN OWEN Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for ...
JOHN OWEN The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him ...
JOHN OWEN The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men
JOHN OWEN The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking...
JOHN OWEN a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification
JOHN OWEN Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that exc...
JOHN OWEN The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements,...
JOHN OWEN After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.
JOHN OWEN Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split...
JOHN OWEN THEOBALD Without consistency there is no moral strength.
OWEN Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round, And whom both Poles ...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL") This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL") God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both a...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL") To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a ...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL") I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they ...
RANDY OWEN Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 5...
RANDY OWEN For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a...
RANDY OWEN As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play mu...
RANDY OWEN God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'...
RANDY OWEN I can't not be who I am.
RANDY OWEN The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to ...
RANDY OWEN I feel very good and positive about my future. I look forward to seeing the fans and doing what I do...
RANDY OWEN The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
RANDY OWEN The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
RANDY OWEN A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet p...
WILFRED OWEN I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to repl...
MICHAEL OWEN Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.
CLIVE OWEN When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
OWEN WISTER When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
OWEN WISTER I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with peop...
OWEN WILSON I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.
OWEN WILSON Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
OWEN WILSON It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the ti...
OWEN WILSON You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, ...
OWEN WILSON I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
OWEN WILSON One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very...
OWEN PATERSON No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of ...
OWEN PATERSON Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
OWEN PATERSON Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
OWEN PATERSON Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good f...
OWEN GLENDOWER And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fu...
OWEN GLENDOWER Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
OWEN GLENDOWER There is no one subsists by himself alone.
OWEN FELTHAM There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
OWEN FELTHAM Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
OWEN FELTHAM Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
OWEN FELTHAM Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
OWEN FELTHAM Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
OWEN FELTHAM Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
OWEN CHAMBERLAIN The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of pa...
OWEN CHAMBERLAIN The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.
OWEN CHAMBERLAIN I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
OWEN BENJAMIN I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
OWEN BENJAMIN To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
OWEN BENJAMIN For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
OWEN ARTHUR I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol...
OWEN ARTHUR For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
OWEN ARTHUR Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a g...
OWEN ARTHUR Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 w...
GARY OWEN I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
GARY OWEN Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ...
GARY OWEN Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.
WILFRED OWEN Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
OWEN MEREDITH I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got...
MICHAEL OWEN The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
RICHARD OWEN Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
OWEN FELLTHAM It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Th...
WILFRED OWEN What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only ...
WILFRED OWEN You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a fo...
MICHAEL OWEN Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a ...
OWEN HART There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
OWEN FELLTHAM Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of soc...
ROBERT OWEN Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
OWEN FELLTHAM We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
OWEN MEREDITH To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.
ROBERT OWEN Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
OWEN FELLTHAM We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extend...
OWEN DAVIES There is no one subsists by himself alone.
OWEN FELLTHAM Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
OWEN FELLTHAM There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
OWEN MEREDITH The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it nece...
OWEN DAVIES Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these vo...
WILFRED OWEN Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
OWEN FELLTHAM Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
OWEN MEREDITH Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
OWEN MEREDITH Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them
OWEN MEREDITH To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to whic...
ROBERT OWEN When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
OWEN WISTER I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
CLIVE OWEN Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
WILFRED OWEN My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
WILFRED OWEN Man is the creature of circumstances.
ROBERT OWEN Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
WILFRED OWEN The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I ...
JAKE OWEN I like to take my dog on the road. He stays up front; he likes it there.
JAKE OWEN Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I co...
JAKE OWEN I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My...
JAKE OWEN I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.
JAKE OWEN I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it bas...
JAKE OWEN But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a ...
JAKE OWEN I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definite...
JAKE OWEN Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's g...
JAKE OWEN I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there poss...
JAKE OWEN Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choo...
JAKE OWEN Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.
JAKE OWEN Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what yo...
JAKE OWEN At first I was a little leery to just post photos of my little girl all the time and kind of exploit...
JAKE OWEN