John Owen Quotes

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All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. John-OwenJohn Owen
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All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less. John-OwenJohn Owen
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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-OwenJohn Owen
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I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend. John-OwenJohn Owen
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In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim. John-OwenJohn Owen
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Leanness of body and soul may go together. John-OwenJohn Owen
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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace. John-OwenJohn Owen
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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. John-OwenJohn Owen
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The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh. John-OwenJohn Owen
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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-OwenJohn Owen

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