John Owen Quotes

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• The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to the resources available to us in Christ. We do not have the ability in ourselves to accomplish the least of God's tasks. This is the law of grace. When we recognize it is impossible for us to perform a duty in our own strength, we will discover the secret of its accomplishment.

  John Owen

  Law, Accomplishment, Grace

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• If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Temptation, Ifs

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

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  Scripture, Revelations, Agree

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• Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

  John Owen

  Thinking, People, Satan

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• We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

  John Owen

  Worship, Christ, Holy

  John Owen (1790). “An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews;: With the Preliminary Exercitations”, p.57

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• Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

  John Owen

  Sin, Killing

  John Owen (1842). “The Mortification of Sin in Believers: Containing the Necessity, Nature and Means of It; with a Resolution of Sundry Cases of Conscience Thereto Belonging”, p.9

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• The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.

  John Owen

  Heart, Pride, Self

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.68, David C Cook

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• I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

  John Owen

  Men, Sorrow, Sin

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• The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of time, we see that a great change has taken place. So it is with grace. Sanctification is a progressive, lifelong work (Prov 4:18). It is an amazing work of God's grace and it is a work to be prayed for (Rom 8:27).

  John Owen

  Taken, Tree, Grace

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• If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

  John Owen

  Doe, Ifs

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• Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

  John Owen

  May, Rooms, Affection

  John Owen (1825). “On the nature ... of indwelling sin in believers”, p.199

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• To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.

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  Grace, Christ, Glory

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• 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.

  John Owen

  Father, Believe, Love You

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• Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.

  John Owen

  Powerful, War, Heart

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• The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.

  John Owen

  Eye, World, Christ

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• When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

  John Owen

  Lying, Heart, Mind

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• Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

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  Believe, Mean, Personality

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• Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.

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  God, Christian, Jesus

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.235

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• There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.

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  Way, Revelations, Obedience

  John Owen (1852). “The Works ...”, p.158

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• When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.

  John Owen

  Bait, World, Rooms

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.102, David C Cook

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• We must not be concerned only with that which troubles us, but with all that troubles God.

  John Owen

  Trouble, Concerned

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• Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth round its roots so the tree is able to get its roots deeper into the earth, where it receives fresh supplies of nourishment. But only much later will it be seen to bring forth better fruit. So corruptions and temptations develop the roots of humility, self-abasement and mourning in a deeper search for that grace by which holiness grows strong. But only later will there be visible fruits of increased holiness.

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  Strong, Humility, Self

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• Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.

  John Owen

  People, Joy, Christ

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• He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

  John Owen

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  John Owen (2014). “Spiritual-Mindedness”, p.42, Ravenio Books

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• The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

  John Owen

  Firsts, Flocks, Duty

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.74

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