Sin Quotes by John Owen

The seed of every sin is in every heart.

— John Owen

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

— John Owen

Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

— John Owen

He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.

— John Owen

Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.

— John Owen

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

— John Owen

There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

— John Owen

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

— John Owen

It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

— John Owen

He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.

— John Owen

There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst…

— John Owen

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

— John Owen

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.

— John Owen

A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert…

— John Owen

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

— John Owen

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

— John Owen

For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor…

— John Owen

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who…

— John Owen

He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all…

— John Owen

There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while…

— John Owen

The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was,…

— John Owen

Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the…

— John Owen

He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the…

— John Owen

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence,…

— John Owen

Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages…

— John Owen

Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine…

— John Owen

...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that…

— John Owen

“A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an evil tree until he is weary; while the root abides in strength…

— John Owen

“Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which…

— John Owen

Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be…

— John Owen

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers,…

— John Owen

When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is…

— John Owen

Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

— John Owen

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures...

— John Owen

“a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification”

— John Owen

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead),…

— John Owen

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and…

— John Owen

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie…

— John Owen

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you…

— John Owen

The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

— John Owen