John Owen Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

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

  John Owen

  God, Christian, Jesus

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

• 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.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Secret, Mouths

• Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.

  John Owen

  Blow, Men, Thinking

  John Owen (1994). “The Works of John Owen”

• The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

  John Owen

  Heart, Men, World

  John Owen (1991). “The Works of John Owen”

• If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Would Be, World

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.319

• It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.

  John Owen

  Lying, Support, Weight

• We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid and assistance we may live unto God in that holy obedience which he requires at our hands.

  John Owen

  Hands, Giving, May

  John Owen (1841). “A treatise on the Holy Spirit and his operations: An exposition of the 130th Psalm”, p.84

• It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.

  John Owen

  Soul, Christianity, Glorify

• the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

  John Owen

  Idols, Exaltation, Poison

• He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.

  John Owen

  Work Out, Able, Christianity

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