Self Quotes by John Owen

12 Self quotes by John Owen

John Owen’s reflections on the self are concise yet resonant, each line nudging you toward a clearer sense of identity. This small set provides a handy entry point for anyone curious about his thoughtful perspective.

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Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

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Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

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Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

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Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of…

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The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his…

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Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and…

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Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company…

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The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while…

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The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons…

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Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm…

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Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company…

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Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient…

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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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