Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds" — John Owen Beloved Copy Share Image
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. — John Owen Copy Share Image
All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you… — John Owen Opposition Copy Share Image
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word — John Owen Copy Share Image
He who finds not opposition from [sin]... is at peace with it, not dying to it. — John Owen Copy Share Image
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its… — John Owen Copy Share Image
For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor… — John Owen Christian Copy Share Image
We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old… — John Owen Age Copy Share Image
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and… — John Owen Absolutes Copy Share Image
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that… — John Owen Copy Share Image
A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which… — John Owen Free will Copy Share Image
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin. — John Owen Copy Share Image
If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so!… — John Owen Affection Copy Share Image
...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine… — John Owen Copy Share Image
On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the… — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life… — John Owen Believer Copy Share Image
The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his… — John Owen Belief Copy Share Image
I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and… — John Owen Believer Copy Share Image
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition! — John Owen Copy Share Image
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. — John Owen Copy Share Image
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. — John Owen Copy Share Image
We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread. — John Owen Blessing Copy Share Image
There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. — John Owen Copy Share Image
The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart. — John Owen Bitterness Copy Share Image
To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace. — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. — John Owen Folly Copy Share Image
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly. — John Owen Beauty Copy Share Image
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. — John Owen Shame Copy Share Image
The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes. — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
“a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification” — John Owen Love Copy Share Image
If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false. — John Owen Copy Share Image
See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace. — John Owen Copy Share Image
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