John OwenTo 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 … ▶362HopeReading
John OwenConsider 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. Amon… ▶373LoveReadingReflection
John OwenWe ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.351Reading
John OwenThe purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferr… ▶362Life
John OwenThe more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.373Sadness
John OwenA man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. ✨ John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor Overcoming Temptation and… ▶374Politics
John OwenThe pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginatio… ▶374Hope
John OwenWe 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. ✨ Temptation and Sin.375Truth
John OwenAs rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams; so will grace flow more fully and freely in its near … ▶331Sadness
John Owen...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be punished with death in the sinner or his surety; and th… ▶364DeathTruth
John OwenThe 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.… ▶353LifeTime
John OwenSpiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings; be able to say, at i… ▶364Philosophy
John Owenthe 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.331Politics
John OwenWe are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. ✨ John Owen (1790). An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews;: Wi… ▶331Love
John OwenThere is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance. ✨ JOHN OWEN, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor THE DEATH OF DEATH IN THE DEATH OF CHRIST, Lulu.com342DeathHopeTruth
John OwenTo those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.321HopeLifeTime
John OwenNow nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in. ✨ John Owen (2… ▶321Death
John OwenA 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.376Humanity
John OwenThere is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience. ✨ John Owen (1852). The Works ...,… ▶376Death
John OwenThough we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can do these things by our own … ▶322Truth
John OwenChrist by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion… ▶322Death
John OwenIn the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.366Humor
John OwenHe, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust,… ▶345Death
John OwenSin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures. ✨ John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor Mortification of Sin, Lulu.com378Love
John OwenHatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification. ✨ John Owen, Rev… ▶356LoveTruth
John OwenIf we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I wi… ▶334LifeLoveTruth
John OwenIt 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 wh… ▶345Sadness
John OwenWe can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. ✨ John Owen (1826). The Works of John Owen, p.187312Politics
John OwenYour state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it. ✨ John Owen (1772). A practical exposition of the CXXX… ▶313PoliticsTruth
John OwenLabour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. ✨ John Owen (1851). The W… ▶357Humanity
