The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when… — John Owen Believe Copy Share Image
It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen… — John Owen Bears Copy Share Image
Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps,… — John Owen Absence Copy Share Image
“When a man fighteth against his sin only with arguments from the issue or the punishment due unto it, this is a… — John Owen Communion with god Copy Share Image
Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages… — John Owen Advantage Copy Share Image
If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all. — John Owen Believe Copy Share Image
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things. — John Owen Blood Copy Share Image
“But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.’ We… — John Owen Divine nature Copy Share Image
The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his… — John Owen Belief Copy Share Image
Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you… — John Owen Sin Copy Share Image
“There are two ways whereby men may be guilty of the neglect of this heavenly favour:--[1.] They are so when the gift… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes. — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it… — John Owen Assurance Copy Share Image
There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while… — John Owen Constant Copy Share Image
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend. — John Owen Friendship Copy Share Image
“The flesh would fain be indulged upon the account of grace: and every word that is spoken of mercy, it stands ready… — John Owen Compassion Copy Share Image
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and… — John Owen Conflicting ideas Copy Share Image
Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will… — John Owen Effects Copy Share Image
He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God. — John Owen Sin Copy Share Image
The gospel shall be victorious. This is the third thing that greatly comforts and refreshes me, — that if God should give… — John Owen Christianity Copy Share Image
To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead),… — John Owen Alive Copy Share Image
There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty. — John Owen Beam Copy Share Image
There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. — John Owen Imperfect Copy Share Image
Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient… — John Owen Admire Copy Share Image
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin. — John Owen Areas Copy Share Image