Rees Howells famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The Bible is common-sense inspired.
-- Rees Howells

#Bible #Common Sense #Common
You may live in a crowd but you meet God and face eternity alone
-- Rees Howells

#May #Faces #Crowds
The promises of God are equal to current coin. Therefore, I must act on the promises as I would if I actually had the cash.
-- Rees Howells

#Promise #Cash #Coins
Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.
-- Rees Howells

#Loss #Delay #Circumstances
During this period the Lord has allowed us to be tested beyond our strength; often 'pressed out of measure, above strength...that we should not trust in ourselves.' Our faith has grown with the work, and we have proved over and over again that all the testings have been for the purpose of strengthening it.
-- Rees Howells

#Purpose #Lord #Periods
The Lord always shows you all the difficulties when He is going to do anything through you.
-- Rees Howells

#Lord #Difficulty #Shows
Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory.
-- Rees Howells

#Taken #Promise #Victory
Unless we are really trusting Him, where does the praise come in? This peace the Savior gives is not an artificial one. It is so deep that even the devil can't disturb it. You can't hear things in the Spirit while you have any turmoil or fear in you. You can't take a shade of fear into the presence of God.
-- Rees Howells

#Giving #Devil #Doe

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.
In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar. Then it traces a genealogy. It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods. The whole spirit must become incarnate and explore the possible.
Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

Rees Howells famous quotes

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