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Own Quotes by John Owen
- Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can…
- To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is…
- Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out…
- Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul.…
- The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to the resources available…
- We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
- The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience.…
- Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
- No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its necessity to be…
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