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Them Quotes by John Owen
- If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be…
- Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
- Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms…
- To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive,…
- Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul…
- ...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be…
- 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…
- If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will…
- 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…
- To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages,…
- Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look…
- For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire…
- Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.
- Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still…
- 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…
- 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…
- How can we possibly believe the promises concerning Heaven, immortality, and glory, when we do not believe the promises concerning our present life? And how…
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