“Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.” — John Owen Copy Share Image
It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.’ We… — 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
“It is he who makes the dams and shuts the flood-gates of corrupted nature so that it cannot break forth in a… — john owen Copy Share Image
A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which… — 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
Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds" — 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
