"It is evident that you contend against sin……" — John Owen
"It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you."
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176 Quotes by John Owen
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He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
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A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on…
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If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily…
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If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world:…
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We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.
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Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness,…
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The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we…
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We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really…
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Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go…
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As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed…
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If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and…
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Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil…
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More Contend Quotes
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
— Honore de Balzac
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if…
— Abdallah II
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Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed.…
— Tony Campolo
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I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
— Tony Campolo
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I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor…
— Tony Campolo
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But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we…
— Tony Campolo
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I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every…
— Tony Campolo
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I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be…
— Tony Campolo
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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these…
— Donald Cargill
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I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of…
— Donald Cargill
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a…
— Angela Carter
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