The Gift of Grace – A Saturday Quote

“The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.” – John Owen, church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford


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On Writing Sermons – A Saturday Quote

“A sermon is not made with an eye upon the sermon, but with both eyes upon the people and all the heart upon God.” -John Owen, church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford


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A Minister Before God – A Saturday Quote

“A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.” – John Owen, church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford


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