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All John Owen Quotes
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It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.
Contend
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He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every…
All
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As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath…
Chosen
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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 believers,…
Believer
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In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption…
Affection
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Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul…
All
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What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).
Gospel
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The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of…
Amazing
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Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth…
Abasement
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Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can…
All
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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 the…
Abominably
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...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be…
All
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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, who are assuredly…
All
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He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He…
Able
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We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid and assistance we…
Aid
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It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon…
Battlements
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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
Christianity
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Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on…
Began
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It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.
Alone
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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 that adheres to…
Adheres
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