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Man Quotes by John Owen
- If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to…
- Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill…
- A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
- 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…
- No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
- A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace…
- Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison,…
- Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not…
- Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
- It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain.…
- Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
- To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician…
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