Quotes by Owen Feltham

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who so lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

— Owen Feltham

Happiness

Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.

— Owen Feltham

Wisdom

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

— Owen Feltham

Wisdom

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

— Owen Feltham

Wisdom

Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.

— Owen Feltham

Wisdom

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

— Owen Feltham

Wisdom

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

— Owen Feltham

Wisdom

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

— Owen Feltham

Wisdom

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

— Owen Feltham

Life

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

— Owen Feltham

Wisdom

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

— Owen Feltham

Wisdom