79 Motivational Quotes By John Owen That Are Sure To Enlighten You
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.
Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.
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 killing sin or it will be killing you.
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
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 indwelling power of sin.
Leanness of body and soul may go together.
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 killing sin or it will be killing you.
Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.
There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
Christians can be confident about their growth in sanctification and eternal security because they are confident in the God who promises it.
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.
He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it while you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
![Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/john-owen-27921.jpg)
Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
The use of means for the obtaining of peace is ours; the bestowing of it is God's prerogative.
Be killing sin or it will be killing you.
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 in the world.
No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.
