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It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation. — John Owen

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. — John Owen

Before the work of grace the heart is 'stony.' It can do no more than a stone can do to please God. — John Owen

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. — 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

Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet. — John Owen

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it. — John Owen

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all. — John Owen

Then he looked only at me. "YOU'RE GETTING SMALLER, BUT I CAN STILL SEE YOU!" said Owen Meany. Then — John Irving

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. — John Owen

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires. — John Owen

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays. — John Owen

Leanness of body and soul may go together. — John Owen

We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages. — John Owen

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false. — John Owen

JUST THINK OF THIS AS MY LITTLE GIFT TO YOU," says Owen Meany — John Irving

Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto martyrdom, upon you. — John Owen

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh. — John Owen

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word — John Owen

He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue. — John Owen

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. — John Owen

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before John Owen — Hugh Laurie

Extra Full - 45 yards. Full - 40 yards. Modified - 35 yards. Improved Cylinder - 30 yards. Cylinder - 25 Yards. — John Owen

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. — John Owen

If we are not ourselves now, when things are hardest, when we are needed most, when are we? — John Owen Theobald

Owen scores and breaks Lineker's competitive scoring record. Although this being a friendly it doesn't actual count, so he hasn't quite done it yet. — John Motson

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified. — John Owen

All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things. — John Owen

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. — John Owen

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures ... — John Owen

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. — John Owen

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes. — John Owen

Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature ... He is a holy intelligent person. — John Owen

The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes. — John Owen

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. — John Owen

It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened. — John Owen

Kind of bloodthirsty, don't you think, Charles?" said John.
"I'm an editor," said Charles. "I have to make decisions like that all the time. — James A. Owen

A sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification — John Owen

The use of means for the obtaining of peace is ours; the bestowing of it is God's prerogative. — John Owen

He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God. — John Owen

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less. — John Owen

Always there have been six ravens at the Tower. If the ravens fly away, the kingdom will fall. — John Owen Theobald

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition! — John Owen

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. — John Owen

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. — John Owen

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. — John Owen

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. — John Owen

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. — John Owen

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. — John Owen

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever. — John Owen

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. — John Owen

After all: I had been practicing lifting up Owen Meany - forever. The — John Irving

YOU LET ME DROWN!" Owen said. "YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I'M ALREADY DEAD!" he told us. "REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE. — John Irving

To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace. — John Owen

IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT," said Owen Meany, "MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD — John Irving

The will is the sovereign faculty and power of the soul; whatever principle acts in it and determines it, that hath the rule. Notwithstanding — John Owen

THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN GET AMERICANS TO NOTICE ANYTHING IS TO TAX THEM OR DRAFT THEM OR KILL THEM, Owen said. — John Irving

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him. — John Owen

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. — John Owen

We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him. — John Owen

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds" — John Owen

There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance. — John Owen

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble. — John Owen

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

Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe. — John Owen

There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ. — John Owen

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly. — John Owen

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. — John Owen

Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare. — John Owen

Prosperity hath slain the foolish and wounded the wise. — John Owen

The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart. — John Owen

I did not hear what I should have listened to. — John Owen

What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24). — John Owen

LIBERACE!' Owen would have cried. 'WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IT POSSIBLE? LIBERACE! KILLED BY WATERMELONS! — John Irving

Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls — John Owen

We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread. — John Owen

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious — John Owen

The gospel shall be victorious. This greatly comforts and refreshes me. — John Owen

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. — John Owen

The conferring and comparing of Scriptures is an excellent means of coming to an acquaintance with the mind and will of God in them. - JOHN OWEN — Joel R. Beeke

DON'T GIVE ME THE SHIVERS,' Owen said. — John Irving

To break men off particular sins, and not to break their hearts, is to deprive ourselves of advantages of dealing with them — John Owen

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. — John Owen

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live. — John Owen

Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die for no one man at all. — John Owen

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. — John Owen

THERE'S NO NEED TO BE CRUDE,' said Owen Meany. — John Irving

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions. — John Owen

It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you. — John Owen

Christ greatly delights in
his people and they greatly
delight in him — John Owen

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. — John Owen

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth. — John Owen

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone. — John Owen

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim. — John Owen

The life, vigour, and comfort of our spiritual life depend much on our mortification of sin. — John Owen

There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. — John Owen

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. — John Owen

If you're God's instrument, Owen," I said, "how come you need my help to stuff a basketball? — John Irving

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith. — John Owen

Christians can be confident about their growth in sanctification and eternal security because they are confident in the God who promises it. — John Owen