The Essential Works Of John Owen Quotes

“keep the heart full of a sense of the love of God in Christ. This is the greatest preservative against the power of temptation in the world. Joseph”
― John Owen, The Essential Works Of John Owen

“Among those who walk with God, there is no greater motive and incentive unto universal holiness, and the preserving of their hearts and spirits in all purity and cleanness, than this, that the blessed Spirit, who hath undertaken to dwell in them, is continually considering what they give entertainment in their hearts unto, and rejoiceth when his temple is kept undefiled.”
― John Owen, The Essential Works Of John Owen

“The business in hand being to awake the whole man unto a consideration of the state and condition wherein he is, that he might be brought home to God, instead hereof he sets himself to mortify the sin that galls him, -- which is a pure issue of self-love, to be freed from his trouble, and not at all to the work he is called unto, -- and so is diverted from it.”
― John Owen, The Essential Works Of John Owen

“Prosperity hath slain the foolish and wounded the wise.”
― John Owen, The Essential Works Of John Owen

“When we give vent to the soul, to try what grace is there, corruption comes out; and when we search for corruption, grace appears. So”
― John Owen, The Essential Works Of John Owen

“So 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, The Essential Works Of John Owen

“So it seems to have been with David after his sin with Bathsheba. I doubt not but that before the message of God to him by Nathan, he had unpleasing thoughts of what he had done; but there are not the least footsteps in the story or any of his prayers that he laid it seriously to heart and was humbled for it before. This”
― John Owen, The Essential Works Of John Owen

“A truly gracious, praying frame (wherein we pray always) is utterly inconsistent with the love of or reserve for any sin. To”
― John Owen, The Essential Works Of John Owen

“None of the children of men can attain so great glory, power, and dominion in this world, but that in their imaginations and desires they can infinitely exceed what they do enjoy, like him who wept that he had not another world to conquer. They”
― John Owen, The Essential Works Of John Owen

“The will is the sovereign faculty and power of the soul; whatever principle acts in it and determines it, that hath the rule. Notwithstanding”
― John Owen, The Essential Works Of John Owen