Peace Quotes by John Owen

12 Peace quotes by John Owen

John Owen’s twelve theological musings on peace dig into the spiritual foundations of serenity. This succinct collection offers a clear window into his doctrinal perspective.

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He who finds not opposition from [sin]... is at peace with it, not dying to it.

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Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done…

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He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with…

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There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.

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See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.

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A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good…

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There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

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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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If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in…

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We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death.…

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“Any peace, rest and quiet we have is from this alone. Who would be safe if wicked men had power to perform…

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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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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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