Spiritual Quotes by John Owen

18 Spiritual quotes by John Owen

John Owen’s measured prose and clear‑sighted perspective shine across eighteen entries. Each one offers a steady, contemplative look at faith, encouraging readers to consider the quiet strength that underlies daily spiritual practice.

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All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

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

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

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Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his…

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

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A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which…

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

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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…

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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…

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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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To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are…

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If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so!…

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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…

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I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of…

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

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Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given…

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“I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have formerly judged to have had spiritual life, though I…

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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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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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