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One Quotes by John Owen
- If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul,…
- A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
- 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…
- Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch…
- Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide…
- The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built…
- The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means…
- The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that…
- Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
- If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.
- There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while we live in…
- 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.…
- No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all…
- It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
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