Quotes about Life
In the whole divine journey, no one else can walk your pathway. In the whole cosmic choir, no one else can sing your song.
— John Ortberg
God is not interested in your "spiritual life." God is just interested in your life.
— John Ortberg
The anonymous1 author wrote, "Wherefore play the game of life warily, for your opponent is full of subtlety, and take abundant thought over your moves, for the stake is your soul.
— John Ortberg
And it struck me, in that year, how deeply both faith and doubt are part of my life. We often think of them as opposites. Many books argue for one or the other. But while in some respects they are enemies, in other ways they are surprisingly alike: both are concerned with ultimate issues; both pop up unasked for at unexpected moments; both are necessary. I
— John Ortberg
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
— John Owen
By nature, since the entrance of sin, no man has any communion with God. He is light, we darkness; and what communion has light with darkness? He is life, we are dead—he is love, and we are enmity; and what agreement can there be between us?
— John Owen
The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will.
— John Owen
There is not a day in our lives in which sin does not either defeat us or is defeated, prevails over us or is prevailed over, and it will be like this as long as we live in this world.
— John Owen
the life, vigour, and comfort of our spiritual life depend much on our mortification of sin.
— John Owen
Were any of us asked seriously, what it is that troubles us, we must refer it to one of these heads:— either we want strength or power, vigour and life, in our obedience, in our walking with God; or we want peace, comfort, and consolation therein. Whatever it is that may befall a believer that doth not belong to one of these two heads, doth not deserve to be mentioned in the days of our complaints. Now
— John Owen
The words of the text explained: to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom. 8:6.
— John Owen
Prosperity hath slain the foolish and wounded the wise.
— John Owen