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Christ Quotes by John Owen

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Christ’s blood is described as a sovereign remedy for sin‑sick souls, showing how his sacrifice heals. The writer says true followers find their deepest nourishment in Christ’s love, not just in rules. He warns that trying to stop lust without relying on Christ is empty.

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

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Christ greatly delights in his people and they greatly delight in him

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Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.

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Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

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

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Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.

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There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

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

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Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which…

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No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by…

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A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert…

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Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because…

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

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

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To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and…

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Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his…

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There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old…

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Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and…

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All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life…

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Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine…

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On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the…

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When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will…

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What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a…

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Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the…

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Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given…

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I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of…

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Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if…

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Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him…

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The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They…

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

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

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Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its…

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There neither is, nor ever was, in the world, nor ever shall be, the least dram of holiness, but what, flowing from…

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Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie…

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We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its…

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The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while…

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It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still…

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Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that…

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Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies,…

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Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I…

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A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.

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He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of…