"In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and……" — John Owen
"In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim."
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John Owen
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176 Quotes by John Owen
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He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
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A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on…
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If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily…
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If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world:…
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We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.
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Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness,…
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The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we…
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We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really…
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Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go…
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As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed…
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If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and…
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Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil…
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More Deeps Quotes
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one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard…
— Kenneth Patchen
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Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young,…
— Herman Melville
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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the…
— William Butler Yeats
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It really makes little difference in the long run whether The Book of the Law was dictated to [Crowley] by…
— Israel Regardie
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The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline…
— Myrtle Reed
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The universe evolves in consciousness of itself and causes itself to be. We are just this blessed consciousness, nothing more…
— David Zindell
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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
— Francois Fenelon
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I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal…
— Mark Twain
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WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of…
— James Salter
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And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds — large, light, and fugitive...
— David Gray
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