Quotes from John Owen
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.
- John Owen
If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.
- John Owen
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
- John Owen
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
- John Owen
We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.
- John Owen
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.
- John Owen
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
- John Owen
Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.
- John Owen
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction
- John Owen
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
- John Owen
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.
- John Owen
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
- John Owen