John Owen
John Owen
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soul together may
Leanness of body and soul may go together.
spirit sin lord
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!
christian prayer religion
Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.
knowledge all-things knows
All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less.
spring heart dragons
He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself
quiet sin mortification
Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.
sin
He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.
moon love-is light
The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves – unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His, like the sun, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose; ours, as the moon, has its enlargements and straightenings.
sin mortification believer
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.
christian running blessing
Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?
design heaven world
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?
principles good-work obedience
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
wish worst stills
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
done may peace-with-god
Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.