Quotes by : John Owen

Bring thy lust to the gospel, not for relief, but for further conviction of its guilt; look on Him whom....

Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick....

a sense of the love of Christ in the cross lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent....

The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love....

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires.

Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course,....

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have formerly judged to have had spiritual life,....