John Bowring famous quotes

In the cross of Christ I glory,
-- John Bowring

#Christ #Glory #Crosses

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.
-- John Bowring

#Flower #Heart #Water

In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.
-- John Bowring

#Light #Sublime #Wrecks

Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love.
-- John Bowring

#God #Moving #Men

A happy family is but an ealier heaven.
-- John Bowring

#Heaven #Happy Family

The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.
-- John Bowring

#Running #Done #Deeds

Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.
-- John Bowring

#Sleep #Gone #Caprice

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

The only reason that Jews are in ***** is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks.

Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

You’re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.