Life Quotes by John Owen

14 Life quotes by John Owen

John Owen’s 14 brief statements distill spiritual reflection into clear, accessible thoughts. Though limited in number, they provide a solid starting point for anyone seeking a contemplative pause.

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Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

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The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

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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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A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a…

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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

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To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead),…

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The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the…

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You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion…

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

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“For by illumination in general, as it denotes an effect wrought in the minds of men, I understand that supernatural knowledge that…

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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers,…

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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…

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How can we possibly believe the promises concerning Heaven, immortality, and glory, when we do not believe the promises concerning our present…

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The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

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“Our belief of the Scriptures to be the word of God, or a divine revelation, and our understanding of the mind and will of…

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It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of…

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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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