Quotes from John Owen
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
- John Owen
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
- John Owen
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.
- John Owen
Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.
- John Owen
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!
- John Owen
To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.
- John Owen
Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
- John Owen
Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.
- John Owen
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
- John Owen
Hatred 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
The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.
- John Owen
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.
- John Owen