John Owen
John Owen
powerful war heart
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.
soul care sin
So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.
devil reign dominion
Christ 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.
fruit repentance
There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.
grace glory christ
To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.
comfort
The gospel shall be victorious. This greatly comforts and refreshes me.
persuasion christ
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
blood sick soul
Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.
christian men desire
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.
prayer secret mouths
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.
littles way speak
We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him.
fall night men
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
punishment church able
The 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 transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.
sin killing
Be killing sin or it will be killing you.