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Mortification Quotes by John Owen
- The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds…
- Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom…
- The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
- Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
- All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.
- 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 all false religion…
- Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims…
- The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!
- 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…
- 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…
- Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
- All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.
- Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the…
- The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
More Mortification Quotes
- The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the… — John Owen
- Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie… — John Owen
- Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. — John Owen
- All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. — John Owen
- The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition! — John Owen
- Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence… — Adolf Hitler
- If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
- It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I… — Charles Darwin