God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off… — John Owen Authority 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,… — John Owen Aspect Copy Share Image
The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever. — John Owen Cybersecurity 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… — John Owen Bible 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… — John Owen Confidence 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… — John Owen Best of me 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… — John Owen Dangerous 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… — John Owen Education 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… — John Owen Able 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… — John Owen Believer Copy Share Image
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. — John Owen Easier Copy Share Image
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it… — John Owen Adultery Copy Share Image
Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the… — John Owen Burden Copy Share Image
He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all… — John Owen Care Copy Share Image
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened. — John Owen Evil Copy Share Image
“Were our affections filled, taken up, and possessed with these things . . . what access could sin, with its painted pleasures,… — John Owen Love Copy Share Image
Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say… — John Owen Believe Copy Share Image
The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They… — John Owen Amiable Copy Share Image
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food… — John Owen Destruction Copy Share Image
Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if… — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the… — John Owen Affection Copy Share Image
There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience. — John Owen Imperfect Copy Share Image
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our… — John Owen Apostasy Copy Share Image
The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves –… — John Owen Capable Copy Share Image
