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Self Quotes by John Owen
- Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
- 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…
- Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth…
- Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to…
- The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and…
- The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here…
- Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong,…
- Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient being; the fountain…
- 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.
- Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"
More Self Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker
- It is the policy of the Indian government: We can lament the lack of talent in the country because it is easier… — Mak_786
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others. — Ronald Reagan