“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
“And the Devil he grinned, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.”— Richard Harris Barham
“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
“The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.”— 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
“Our sins are like our shadows: when we fly from them, they follow us; when we fly to them, they fly from us.”— Francis Quarles