Owen Feltham Quotes

Owen Feltham was an English writer, author of a book entitled Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political , containing 146 short essays. It had great popularity in its day. Feltham was for a time in the household of the Earl of Thomond as chaplain or secretary, and published Brief Character of the Low Countries . His most cited essay is "How the Distempers of These Times Should Affect Wise Men", which John Gross included in The Oxford Book of Essays. Wikipedia

✵ 1602 – 23. February 1668

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Famous Owen Feltham Quotes

“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.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 535.

“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.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 333.

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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 180.

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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 434.

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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 406.

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