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• Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

  John Owen

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  John Owen “Epistle to the Hebrews”, Kregel Publications

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• 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

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• All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of our souls depends, are represented to us in all their splendour in and through Christ. No wonder then that Christ is glorious in the eyes of believers!

  John Owen

  Eye, Grace And Mercy, Soul

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• He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

  John Owen

  Sin

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• The seed of every sin is in every heart.

  John Owen

  Heart, Sin, Seeds

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• We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.

  John Owen

  Littles, Way, Speak

  "Temptation and Sin".

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• Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

  John Owen

  Men, Delight, Worship

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• For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.

  John Owen

  Christian, Men, Desire

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• All things I thought I knew; but now confess
  The more I know, I know, I know the less.

  John Owen

  Knowledge, All Things, Knows

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• We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?

  John Owen

  Religious, Design, Heaven

  John Owen (1828). “Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded”, p.204

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• The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...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...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.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Deeds, Flesh

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• Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

  JOHN OWEN, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE GLORY OF CHRIST”, Lulu.com

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• On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.

  John Owen

  Eye, Desire, World

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• He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.

  John Owen

  Sorry, People, Church

  John Owen (1904). “The Golden Book of John Owen: Passages from the Writings of the Rev. John Owen, M.A., D.D., Sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church”

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• Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

  John Owen

  Heart, Grace, Stones

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• To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for us out of the temptation, should we fall. We are to pray for what God has already promised. Our requests are to be regulated by His promises and commands. Faith embraces the promises and so finds relief.

  John Owen

  Believe, Fall, Mean

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• No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.

  John Owen

  Men, Sight, Doe

  JOHN OWEN, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE GLORY OF CHRIST”, Lulu.com

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• Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

  John Owen

  Hate, Men, Two

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• There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

  John Owen

  Peace, Perfect, Obedience

  "The Works of John Owen".

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

  John Owen

  Soul, Christianity, Glorify

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• Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

  John Owen

  Self, Sea, Ideas

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• Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul about, what he has already done in you; and be ashamed. Among those who walk with God, there is no greater motive and incentive unto universal holiness, and the preserving of their hearts and spirits in all purity and cleanness than this: That the blessed Spirit, who has undertaken to dwell in them, is continually considering what they give entertainment in their hearts unto, and rejoices when his temple is kept undefiled.

  John Owen

  Blessed, Heart, Giving

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• Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes with a Spirit of life and power.

  John Owen

  Doors, Soul, Spirit

  John Owen (1841). “A treatise on the Holy Spirit and his operations: An exposition of the 130th Psalm”, p.464

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• The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

  John Owen

  Heart, Roots, Digestion

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.15, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

  John Owen

  Sin, Trouble, Evident

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