Quotes by John Owen
“The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.”— John Owen
“Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.”— John Owen
“The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.”— John Owen
“A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.”— John Owen
“We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.”— John Owen
“Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel.”— John Owen
“In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.”— John Owen
“The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.”— John Owen
“The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to the strength that is available to us in Christ.”— John Owen
“The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.”— John Owen
“To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.”— John Owen