...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship. John Henry Jowett More Quotes by John Henry Jowett More Quotes From John Henry Jowett God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters. John Henry Jowett comforter comfort doe 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 fighting prayer spiritual Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic. John Henry Jowett gratitude inspirational life 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 thanksgiving spiritual thank-you Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. John Henry Jowett thank-you happiness inspirational 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 feet wings giving Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing. John Henry Jowett accomplish-nothing ministry christian It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life. John Henry Jowett cultivation multitudes sorrow 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 god children fall 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 dream desire men May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest. John Henry Jowett life-is-like may tree Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home. John Henry Jowett house home needs All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice. John Henry Jowett sacrifice prayer men It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. John Henry Jowett fighting prayer spiritual The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again. John Henry Jowett defeat elements trying Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge. John Henry Jowett masters kings house Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. John Henry Jowett fortitude thanksgiving thankfulness Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. John Henry Jowett thanksgiving thankfulness spiritual
