John Owen Quotes
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John Owen Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Do not seek to empty your cup as a way to avoid sin, but rather seek to fill it up with the Spirit of life, so there is no longer room for sin.
Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.
If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.
If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.
Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto martyrdom, upon you.
He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
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He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.
Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature ... He is a holy intelligent person.
The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
When we give vent to the soul, to try what grace is there, corruption comes out; and when we search for corruption, grace appears. So
God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
The will is the sovereign faculty and power of the soul; whatever principle acts in it and determines it, that hath the rule. Notwithstanding
We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him.
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience ...
Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.
See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.
He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.
A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.
Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.
To break men off particular sins, and not to break their hearts, is to deprive ourselves of advantages of dealing with them
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.
When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.
No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
Christians can be confident about their growth in sanctification and eternal security because they are confident in the God who promises it.
What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).
Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.
Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.
Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die for no one man at all.
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!