Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it, and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces, — self-denial, readiness to the cross, — they all work and help faith. But when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do.

John Owen

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Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

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If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

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If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. by John Owen

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

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The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.

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Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.

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Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.

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Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can do these things by our own efforts is to trample on the cross and grace of Jesus Christ. Whatever God works in us by his grace, he commands us to do as our duty. God works all in us and by us.

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Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

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If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all. by John Owen

If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.

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If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass wit... by John Owen

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

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If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

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I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

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Be killing sin or it will be killing you. by John Owen

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

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We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion t... by John Owen

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

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We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

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The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to the resources available to us in Christ. We do not have the ability in ourselves to accomplish the least of God's tasks. This is the law of grace. When we recognize it is impossible for us to perform a duty in our own strength, we will discover the secret of its accomplishment.

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Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith. by John Owen

Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

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The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.

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The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by... by John Owen

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

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Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge.

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