If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages… — 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 Copy Share Image
When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy… — John Owen Copy Share Image
No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto… — John Owen Copy Share Image
He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God. — John Owen Copy Share Image
The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart. — 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
When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a… — John Owen Copy Share Image
When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is… — John Owen Copy Share Image
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving… — 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
