I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in… — John Owen Copy Share Image
To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its… — John Owen Copy Share Image
There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it… — John Owen Copy Share Image
For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old… — 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
