Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan. John Owen More Quotes by John Owen More Quotes From John Owen Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him. John Owen prayer christian religion When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin. John Owen bait rooms world Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. John Owen sick soul blood There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while we live in this world. Sin will not spare for one day. There is no safety but in a constant warfare for those who desire deliverance from sin's perplexing rebellion. John Owen safety one-day desire 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 hate men two 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 free-will spiritual men A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities. John Owen desert saving may The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin...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 deeds flesh spiritual We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages. John Owen benefits reading looks 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 cutting exercise men Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified. John Owen this-world sin world Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin. John Owen affection may rooms Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly. John Owen delight worship men As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in. John Owen loving-friends spirit heart There is no death of sin without the death of Christ. John Owen sin christ He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays. John Owen prayer christian religion Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections. John Owen drawing grace war Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God. John Owen grace stones heart We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above? John Owen design religious heaven We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread. John Owen prayer blessing bread
