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
See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace. — John Owen Copy Share Image
If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false. — John Owen Copy Share Image
There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty. — John Owen Copy Share Image
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less. — John Owen Copy Share Image
He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God. — John Owen Sin Copy Share Image
We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly. — John Owen Beauty Copy Share Image
If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so!… — John Owen Affection Copy Share Image
He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“When the Holy Spirit does his work of regeneration in the hearts of men he does not come on them with great… — John Owen Feelings and emotions 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
If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least,… — John Owen Bears Copy Share Image
The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when… — John Owen Copy Share Image
So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence,… — John Owen Advantage Copy Share Image
Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and… — John Owen Deliverance 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 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 Copy Share Image
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
The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But,… — John Owen Amazing work 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 Copy Share Image
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers,… — John Owen Believer 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
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. — John Owen Folly Copy Share Image
“a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification” — John Owen Love 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
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. — John Owen Shame 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
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
If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us. — John Owen 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
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
He who finds not opposition from [sin]... is at peace with it, not dying to it. — John Owen Copy Share Image
The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word — John Owen Copy Share Image
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and… — John Owen Believer Copy Share Image
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. — John Owen Copy Share Image
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in… — John Owen 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 Opposition Copy Share Image
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