Quotes about Christianity
Christians can be confident about their growth in sanctification and eternal security because they are confident in the God who promises it.
— John Owen
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
— 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
Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.
— John Owen
The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will.
— 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
Christians are called to wage war against this enemy, knowing that there are only two options: "Be killing sin or it will be killing you."25
— John Owen
Our unction, therefore, is the communication of the Holy Spirit, and nothing else.
— John Owen
The words of the text explained: to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom. 8:6.
— John Owen
I say, then, mortification is not the present business of unregenerate men. God calls them not to it as yet; conversion is their work, -- the conversion of the whole soul, -- not the mortification of this or that particular lust.
— John Owen
The vigor, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
— John Owen
no man can express a greater enmity unto or malice against the gospel, than he that should assert or maintain that the faith, profession, lives, ways, and walkings of the generality of Christians are a just representation of its truth and holiness.
— John Owen