After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes. — John Owen Causes Copy Share Image
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin. — John Owen Affection Copy Share Image
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh. — John Owen Comfort Copy Share Image
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. — John Owen God Copy Share Image
If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all. — John Owen Believe Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth. — John Owen Beginnings and ends Copy Share Image
He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what… — John Owen Able Copy Share Image
“Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.” — John Owen Divine nature Copy Share Image
Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old… — John Owen Christianity Copy Share Image
Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I… — John Owen Best friend Copy Share Image
He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with… — John Owen Dying Copy Share Image
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from… — John Owen Daily work 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 Cease Copy Share Image
It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still… — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams;… — John Owen Approach Copy Share Image
Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.… — John Owen Blood Copy Share Image
A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed… — John Owen Digestion Copy Share Image
No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its… — John Owen Care Copy Share Image
The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made… — John Owen Arguing Copy Share Image
“Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which… — John Owen Christianity 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
Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be… — John Owen Affection 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
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company… — John Owen Business Copy Share Image
The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow… — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that… — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion… — John Owen Ends 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
“Christians can be confident about their growth in sanctification and eternal security because they are confident in the God who promises it.” — John Owen Christianity 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
He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and… — John Owen Care Copy Share Image
A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees… — John Owen Almighty 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
Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated.… — John Owen Delight 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 Bottom Copy Share Image
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while… — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done… — John Owen Assault 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
A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which… — John Owen Free will Copy Share Image
Ignorance of God and of ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and, this ariseth mostly not from… — John Owen Application Copy Share Image
