Quotes about John Owen
If prayer do not constantly endeavour the ruin of sin, sin will ruin prayer, and utterly alienate the soul from it.
— John Owen
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. And this is a second principle of my ensuing discourse.
— John Owen
A ministry devoid of spiritual gifts is a sufficient evidence of a church under a degenerating apostasy.
— John Owen
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
— John Owen
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
Were our affections filled, taken up, and possessed with these things . . . what access could sin, with its painted pleasures, with its sugared poisons, with its envenomed baits, have unto our souls?
— John Owen
The real view that we may have of Christ and His glory in this world comes through faith in the divine revelation of Scripture.
— John Owen
And truly, for sinners to have fellowship with God, the infinitely holy God, is an astonishing dispensation.9
— John Owen
sin is always acting, always conceiving, always seducing and tempting.
— John Owen
Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto martyrdom, upon you.
— John Owen
Faith is most satisfied and cherished with what is infinite and inconceivable, as resting absolutely in divine revelation.
— John Owen
for as gospel gifts are useless without attending unto gospel institutions, so gospel institutions are found to be fruitless and unsatisfactory without the attaining and exercising of gospel gifts.
— John Owen