"Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self,……" — John Owen
"Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident."
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176 Quotes by John Owen
John Owen has 176 quotes on this site.
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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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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
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In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled…
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We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs…
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I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for…
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When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident…
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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions…
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it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because…
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The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer,…
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