All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less. — John Owen Copy Share Image
We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread. — John Owen Blessing Copy Share Image
To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace. — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. — John Owen Copy Share Image
The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart. — John Owen Bitterness Copy Share Image
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. — John Owen 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 Copy Share Image
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“And those who pretend to be teachers of others, and yet despise his teaching assistance, will one day find that they undertook… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the… — John Owen Burden Copy Share Image
To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a… — John Owen Advantage Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of… — John Owen Holy spirit Copy Share Image
A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good… — John Owen Consolation Copy Share Image
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and… — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to… — John Owen Ability Copy Share Image
“For by illumination in general, as it denotes an effect wrought in the minds of men, I understand that supernatural knowledge that… — John Owen Life Copy Share Image
In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the… — John Owen Affection Copy Share Image
Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if… — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“It is to be feared that very many have little knowledge of the main enemy that they carry about them in their… — John Owen Fear Copy Share Image
The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God… — John Owen Blessing Copy Share Image
When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable… — John Owen Affection Copy Share Image
Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his… — John Owen Bread 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 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
The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use… — John Owen Copy Share Image
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience… — John Owen Faith Copy Share Image
In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles,… — John Owen 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
“Whoever, therefore, hath this ability to know the mysteries of the gospel, he hath it by free gift or donation from God.… — John Owen Christianity Copy Share Image
It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their… — John Owen Best of me Copy Share Image
Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its… — John Owen Believer Copy Share Image
There neither is, nor ever was, in the world, nor ever shall be, the least dram of holiness, but what, flowing from… — John Owen Christ Copy Share Image
The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their… — John Owen Believer Copy Share Image
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving… — John Owen 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
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