We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death.… — John Owen Accepting Copy Share Image
He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but… — John Owen Church Copy Share Image
“Sin does not only still abide in us, but is still acting, still laboring to bring forth the deeds of the flesh.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“It is the especial duty of all churches, and of all believers, to search diligently into what God finds fault with, in… — John Owen Covenant-theology Copy Share Image
Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and… — John Owen Accepted Copy Share Image
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh. — John Owen Comfort Copy Share Image
If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in… — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. — John Owen Draws Copy Share Image
The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use… — John Owen Doors Copy Share Image
“But the Spirit was not limited to doing surprising and extraordinary things. He was present in the Old Testament period in giving… — John Owen Bible Copy Share Image
He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of… — John Owen Barren Copy Share Image
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition! — John Owen Conditions Copy Share Image
“There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.” — John Owen Religion Copy Share Image
“Whereas we see by experience that all who have or enjoy the Scripture do not yet understand it, or come to an… — John Owen Bible Copy Share Image
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant… — John Owen Divine Copy Share Image
Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies,… — 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
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that… — John Owen Aim Copy Share Image
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of… — John Owen Ends Copy Share Image
Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should… — John Owen Believe 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
Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God. — John Owen Grace Copy Share Image
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
