You must understand: the unholy trinity Scripture names as the world, our flesh, and the evil one conspire to undermine your character.

The world then is the enemy of our souls; first, because, however innocent its pleasures, and praiseworthy its pursuits may be, they are likely to engross us, unless we are on our guard: and secondly, because in all its best pleasures, and noblest pursuits, the seeds of sin have been sown; an enemy hath done this; so that it is most difficult to enjoy the good without partaking of the evil also.

We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.

God's supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

Killing sin is the work of the Holy Spirit. By Him alone is it to be done and by no other power will it ever be done." Trying to kill sin and behave morally through personal strength and efforts using personal tools and techniques is the foundation of all the false religion in the world.

The flesh would fain be indulged upon the account of grace: and every word that is spoken of mercy, it stands ready to catch at, and to pervert to its own corrupt aims and purposes. To apply mercy, then, to a sin not vigorously mortified, is to fulfil the end of the flesh pon the gospel.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

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.

for Owen, circumstances—whether amiable or painful—were not an excuse to stop resisting sin.