Quotes from John Owen

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

To mortify a sin is not utterly to kill, root it out, and destroy it, that it should have no more hold at all nor residence in our hearts. It is true this is that which is aimed at; but this is not in this life to be accomplished.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification

But the Spirit was not limited to doing surprising and extraordinary things. He was present in the Old Testament period in giving civil rule and government ... moral virtues ... physical strength ... and intellectual abilities.