Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by George Bowen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish author George Bowen.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
George Bowen

Sir George Ferguson Bowen, was an Irish author and colonial administrator whose appointments included postings to the Ionian Islands, Queensland, New Zealand, Victoria, Mauritius and Hong Kong.

Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures of grace, and will be perfected just in the degree in which that grace is bestowed. The truly humble man will seek to be filled with all the fullness of God, knowing that when so ?lled there is not the slightest place for pride or for self.
It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room, and continue in the Spirit as we go from place to place.... The prayer hour is left standing before God till the other hours come and stand beside it; then, if they are found to be a harmonious sisterhood, the prayer is granted.
The man who receives gifts from God, receives an appointment from God; namely, that of donor; and the wisdom to discharge the functions connected with this appointment will surely not be withheld, if it be ingenuously asked.
It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room. — © George Bowen
It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room.
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