Holy spirit Quotes by John Owen

11 Holy spirit quotes by John Owen

John Owen’s eleven brief excerpts present a thoughtful, theological take on the Holy Spirit. The collection is succinct yet packed with the depth of a seasoned Reformation thinker, ideal for a focused study.

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We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid…

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In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles,…

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Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and…

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“Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.”

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As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration…

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When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a…

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“The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of…

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“The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of…

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“When the Holy Spirit does his work of regeneration in the hearts of men he does not come on them with great…

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“Whereas we see by experience that all who have or enjoy the Scripture do not yet understand it, or come to an…

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“Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which…

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I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him…

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“And those who pretend to be teachers of others, and yet despise his teaching assistance, will one day find that they undertook a work…

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Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and…

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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 reign in…

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

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

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Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go…

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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 shoulders of…

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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…

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