We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God… — 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 Copy Share Image
To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a… — John Owen Copy Share Image
As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams;… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when… — 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
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
