The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. — John Owen Copy Share Image
He who finds not opposition from [sin]... is at peace with it, not dying to it. — John Owen Copy Share Image
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
When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie… — John Owen Copy Share Image
He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue. — John Owen Copy Share Image
He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine… — John Owen Copy Share Image
By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave… — John Owen Copy Share Image
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving… — 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
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