John Henry Jowett Quotes

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

John Henry Jowett

#2. A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

Thomas Boswell

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

John Henry Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

#6. I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.

Amy Brenneman

#7. 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

#8. Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

Mary Lou Retton

#9. Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

Mike Tyson

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

John Henry Jowett

#11. Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.

Jim Brosnan

#12. 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

#13. Welcome to the gates of heaven Adelia, and what did you do with your life? My Lord, I was a bishop's whore.

Ariana Franklin

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

John Henry Jowett

#15. 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

#16. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

John Henry Jowett

#17. Happiness is a house without a telephone.

Gay Byrne

#18. I wish I could be attracted to unattractive women. They're just more interesting.

Dov Davidoff

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

John Henry Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

#21. I'm really tough. It's a state of mind.

Brandi Carlile

#22. Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing.

John Henry Jowett

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

John Henry Jowett

#24. I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

Grover Cleveland