Quotes from John Owen
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
- John Owen
Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.
- John Owen
Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.
- John Owen
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
- John Owen
A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.
- John Owen
When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.
- John Owen
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
- John Owen
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.
- John Owen
He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.
- John Owen
To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.
- John Owen
He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.
- John Owen
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.
- John Owen