Quotes by : John Owen

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

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.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or....

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

A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an evil tree until he is weary; while the root abides in strength....

There is no imagination wherewith man is besotted, more foolish, none so pernicious as this,- that persons....

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,....