J. H. Jowett Quotes & Sayings

When the Universe attains Versistasis, everything will cease to exist and be create in the perfected dual moment. — Jason Jowett

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. — Benjamin Jowett

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion. — Benjamin Jowett

Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship. — John Henry Jowett

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest. — John Henry Jowett

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters. — John Henry Jowett

Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge. — John Henry Jowett

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. — Benjamin Jowett

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else. — Benjamin Jowett

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you. — Benjamin Jowett

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home. — John Henry Jowett

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

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. — John Henry Jowett

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. — Benjamin Jowett

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary. — Benjamin Jowett

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. — Benjamin Jowett

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice. — John Henry Jowett

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. — Benjamin Jowett

I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia - by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.
(tr Jowett) — Plato

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything. — Benjamin Jowett

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place. — Benjamin Jowett

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life. — John Henry Jowett

This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their specialties-for example, Huxley, Ostwald, Karl Ludwig, Virchow, Billroth, Jowett, William G. Sumner, Halsted and Osler-men who knew nothing whatever about the so-called science of pedagogy, and would have derided its alleged principles if they had heard them stated. — H.L. Mencken

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic. — Benjamin Jowett

Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing. — John Henry Jowett

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so. — Benjamin Jowett

Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need. — Benjamin Jowett

Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. — John Henry Jowett

The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again. — John Henry Jowett

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive. — Benjamin Jowett