The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made… — John Owen Copy Share Image
A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin. — John Owen Copy Share Image
There neither is, nor ever was, in the world, nor ever shall be, the least dram of holiness, but what, flowing from… — John Owen Copy Share Image
No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by… — John Owen 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 Copy Share Image
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie… — 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 Copy Share Image
No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its… — 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
Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which… — John Owen Copy Share Image
What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him… — John Owen Copy Share Image
By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy… — John Owen Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever. — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Our belief of the Scriptures to be the word of God, or a divine revelation, and our understanding of the mind and will of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
How can we possibly believe the promises concerning Heaven, immortality, and glory, when we do not believe the promises concerning our present life? And… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of… — John Owen 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 see him… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“And those who pretend to be teachers of others, and yet despise his teaching assistance, will one day find that they undertook a work… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in… — 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
