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Sin Quotes by John Owen
- The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify…
- 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…
- Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be…
- 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.
- Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a…
- Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.
- 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…
- There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in…
- 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…
- Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures...
- By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou…
- When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet,…
- He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.
- 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…
- Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings;…
- Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against…
- Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the…
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- Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart. — Johann Arndt
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- Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare
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- Any game plan? Xypher asked Sin. Don't die. I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. Kat scoffed at his sarcasm.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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