Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. John Owen More Quotes by John Owen More Quotes From John Owen Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God. John Owen weed prayer add See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace. John Owen dues obedience causes He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God. John Owen sin Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world. John Owen substance soul self Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit? John Owen blessing christian running It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened. John Owen threatening holy evil There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience. John Owen revelations obedience way Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet. John Owen mortification sin quiet Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death. John Owen blow men thinking There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience. John Owen obedience perfect peace No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to his mind and will. John Owen mind heart lying ...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be punished with death in the sinner or his surety; and therefore if God would bring many sons to glory, the Captain of their salvation must undergo sufferings and death, to make satisfaction for them. John Owen suffering-and-death judging son Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. John Owen affliction darkness religious It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation. John Owen support weight lying Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it. John Owen blow wind believe Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us. John Owen servant servant-of-god christ 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 Owen rocks grace house 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 neglect sin encouragement God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change. John Owen purpose praying doe By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief. John Owen yield art jesus
