Effects Quote by John Owen

God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.…

— 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…

— John Owen

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

— John Owen

“Our belief of the Scriptures to be the word of God, or a divine revelation, and our understanding of the mind and will of…

— John Owen

How can we possibly believe the promises concerning Heaven, immortality, and glory, when we do not believe the promises concerning our present life? And…

— John Owen

It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of…

— John Owen

I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him…

— John Owen

“And those who pretend to be teachers of others, and yet despise his teaching assistance, will one day find that they undertook a work…

— John Owen

Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and…

— John Owen

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in…

— John Owen

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

— John Owen

Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.

— John Owen