John Henry Jowett Quotes

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

John Henry Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

#4. Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

John Henry Jowett

#5. 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

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

John Henry Jowett

#7. 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

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

John Henry Jowett

#9. 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

#10. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

John Henry Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

#13. Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing.

John Henry Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett