John Owen
John Owen
John Owen quotes about
darkness bitterness affliction
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
self views imagination
The 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 imaginations.
fruit repentance
There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.
may rooms affection
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
people delight christ
Christ greatly delights in his people and they greatly delight in him
evil threatening holy
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
christian grace soul
What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear, stable comprehension of the wisdom, love, grace, goodness, holiness, righteousness, and power of God, as declared and exalted in Christ unto our redemption and eternal salvation?
father believe love-you
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.
world rooms bait
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.
prayer blessing bread
We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.
causes obedience due-time
See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.
spiritual blood flesh
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
sea ideas self
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.
servant-of-god christ servant
Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.