John Henry Jowett Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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