John Owen ("British Martial") quote: "God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted."

Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round, And whom both Poles ...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL")

This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL")

To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a ...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL")

In Omnia Paratus
BRITISH ARMY

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIAL

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIAL

Laugh, if thou art wise.
MARTIAL

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
MARTIAL

Gifts are hooks.
MARTIAL

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.
MARTIAL

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIAL

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
MARTIAL

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
MARTIAL

Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life's too late, live today
MARTIAL

Those they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIAL

[i]t is a defense to any offense that the accused was acting pursuant to orders unless the accused k...
MARTIAL

You are looking at numbers and signals, but in the end what is most important here is the experience...
MARTIAL

While you cannot resolve what your are, at last you will be nothing.
MARTIAL

The country in town.
MARTIAL

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
JOHN OWEN

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food ...
JOHN OWEN

But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.�...
JOHN OWEN

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it...
JOHN OWEN

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day fro...
JOHN OWEN

See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to b...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Christ claims our help in many a st...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 All love in general hath an assimi...
JOHN OWEN

I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual l...
JOHN OWEN

Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went t...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres...
JOHN OWEN

God sometimes marvelously raiseth the souls of his saints with some close and near approaches unto t...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 We can have no power from Christ unless ...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 If ever we intend to take ...
JOHN OWEN

Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love f...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 You have your season, and you have but your seaso...
JOHN OWEN

Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.
JOHN OWEN

They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, a...
JOHN OWEN

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.
JOHN OWEN

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedi...
JOHN OWEN

Beginning a Lenten series on prayer: If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would ...
JOHN OWEN

Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavo...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CH...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 That fear which keeps ...
JOHN OWEN

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. H...
JOHN OWEN

Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hat...
JOHN OWEN

In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart.
JOHN OWEN

It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much...
JOHN OWEN

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements,...
JOHN OWEN

Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and throu...
JOHN OWEN

Sometimes truth is lost first in a church, and then holiness and sometimes the decay or hatred of ho...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Mora...
JOHN OWEN

Some relate ... that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they...
JOHN OWEN

It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dar...
JOHN OWEN

Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what li...
JOHN OWEN

It is to no purpose to boast of Christ, if we have not an evidence of His graces in our hearts and l...
JOHN OWEN

Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is ...
JOHN OWEN

Some go to the light of nature and the use of "right reason" (that is, their own) as their guides; a...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 Religion is the same that ever it was,...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 God hath work to do in...
JOHN OWEN

I do not know a warning that I judge more necessary to be given to those who are called this day, th...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 Faith is the leading grace in all our sp...
JOHN OWEN

There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.
JOHN OWEN

God could, if I may say so, more easily have made a new world of innocent creatures, and have govern...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Phi...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Pr...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 None use institute...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 "Secret" sins, ...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
JOHN OWEN

When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out t...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of All Souls To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it...
JOHN OWEN

It is sottish ignorance and infidelity to suppose that, under the Gospel, there is no communication ...
JOHN OWEN

Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves; but our not forgiving others pro...
JOHN OWEN

Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, ...
JOHN OWEN

If errors must be tolerated, say some, then men may do what they please, without control. No means, ...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089 I whould be very sorr...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Matthias the Apostle I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and f...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Luke the Evangelist He who prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays.
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemorati...
JOHN OWEN

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 He that is alive may know that he was born, though he kn...
JOHN OWEN

Ability of speech in time and season is an especial gift of God, and that eminently with respect unt...
JOHN OWEN

Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firm...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 I have seen and rea...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnograp...
JOHN OWEN

It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ tha...
JOHN OWEN

I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 No heart can conceive tha...
JOHN OWEN

Feast of All Saints Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that h...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop o...
JOHN OWEN

That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the...
JOHN OWEN

The world, indeed, seems to be weary of the just, righteous, holy ways of God, and of that exactness...
JOHN OWEN

Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 Then are we servants of...
JOHN OWEN

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable l...
JOHN OWEN

We, according to the Scriptures, plainly believe that Christ hath, by his righteousness, merited for...
JOHN OWEN

Secondly, the proper counsel and intention of God in sending his Son into the world to die was, that...
JOHN OWEN

Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto marty...
JOHN OWEN

The death of Christ is their meritorious cause; the Spirit of God and his effectual grace their effi...
JOHN OWEN

And, therefore, seeing he doth not intercede and pray for every one, he did not die for every one.
JOHN OWEN

Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is n...
JOHN OWEN

Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die ...
JOHN OWEN

I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them tha...
JOHN OWEN

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, ...
JOHN OWEN

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
JOHN OWEN

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital pr...
JOHN OWEN

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day fro...
JOHN OWEN

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit
JOHN OWEN

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be...
JOHN OWEN

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the f...
JOHN OWEN

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food ...
JOHN OWEN

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it
JOHN OWEN

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, ...
JOHN OWEN

Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for ...
JOHN OWEN

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him ...
JOHN OWEN

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men
JOHN OWEN

The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking...
JOHN OWEN

a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification
JOHN OWEN

Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that exc...
JOHN OWEN

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements,...
JOHN OWEN

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.
JOHN OWEN

If we have told lies you have told half lies. A man who tells lies merely hides the truth, but a man...
THE BRITISH CONSUL.

Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split...
JOHN OWEN THEOBALD

I am a professional footballer, and it's a game where the coach decides where you can be most be...
ANTHONY MARTIAL

I try to learn from Falcao, and Manu Riviere as well - his movement is excellent - it's really g...
ANTHONY MARTIAL

The Premier League is more physically demanding than Ligue 1. I love English football; it's the ...
ANTHONY MARTIAL

I love Manchester. I like being here, and certainly I see myself being here for a good while yet.
ANTHONY MARTIAL

My family were really happy for me that I'm going to such a big club as Manchester United. They ...
ANTHONY MARTIAL

It's true that the atmosphere here is quite different from the one in France. People live and br...
ANTHONY MARTIAL

I must continue to work hard in training. I need to think more like a goal scorer; sometimes I get s...
ANTHONY MARTIAL

Without consistency there is no moral strength.
OWEN

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and p...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are no...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exerci...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and mode...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad din...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may b...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Birdes of a feather will flocke togither.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems en...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that yo...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, whi...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses noth...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whol...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also a...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew; Who e'er a greater madne...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, volui...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. [Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the ti...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinn...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, wh...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a sp...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you ar...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. [Lat., Cineri gloria sera est.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Be merry if you are wise. [Lat., Ride si sapis.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If yo...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and say...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred th...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier e...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself, and let him have ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is me...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather; ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expec...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

And have you been able, Flaccus, to see the slender Thais? Then, Flaccus, I suspect you can see wh...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; i...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities,...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had, Fabianus: would she were the friend of my wife!
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

I could do without your face, and your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and your bosom, and ot...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scar...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "H...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is? 'Ti...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

"You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Ch...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,-- who can deny it? But when you prai...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begin...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your at...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

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God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

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