“Were our affections filled, taken up, and possessed with these things . . . what access could sin, with its painted pleasures,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves –… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification” — John Owen Copy Share Image
Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished… — John Owen Copy Share Image
All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his… — John Owen Copy Share Image
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you. — John Owen Copy Share Image
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. — John Owen Copy Share Image
If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us. — John Owen Copy Share Image
If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in… — John Owen Copy Share Image
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
We must not be concerned only with that which troubles us, but with all that troubles God. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin. — 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
