John Jowett Quotes & Sayings

There may be questions still unanswered, but that means that we need science, not that science is useless [...] There are fish in the sea as yet uncaught, but that does not mean that fishing nets have failed and should be thrown aside. — Frances Hardinge

I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans — Taylor Swift

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies — Bob Hope

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

Death is just a chapter break in a never-ending tale, Nico. — Brian K. Vaughan

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here. — Rick Pitino

I know him. He's a hot chilli pepper, just like me!
(on Valeri Bojinov) — Hristo Stoichkov

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

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

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

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. — John Henry Jowett

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

Time, that aged nurse, rocked me to patience. — John Keats

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

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

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

George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. — Emilio Botin

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

Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing. — John Henry 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

Persecuting Christians because of Jesus Christ is like a man who goes after the children of his enemy because he is indeed afraid of his enemy. Matthew 24:9 — Felix Wantang