John Owen Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul about, what he has already done in you; and be ashamed. Among those who walk with God, there is no greater motive and incentive unto universal holiness, and the preserving of their hearts and spirits in all purity and cleanness than this: That the blessed Spirit, who has undertaken to dwell in them, is continually considering what they give entertainment in their hearts unto, and rejoices when his temple is kept undefiled.

  John Owen

  Blessed, Heart, Giving

• The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

  John Owen

  Heart, Men, World

  John Owen (1991). “The Works of John Owen”

• The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.

  John Owen

  Heart, Pride, Self

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.68, David C Cook

• The seed of every sin is in every heart.

  John Owen

  Heart, Sin, Seeds

• Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.

  John Owen

  Powerful, War, Heart

• The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

  John Owen

  Heart, Roots, Digestion

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.15, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

• Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could, every thought of unbelief would be atheism if allowed to develop. Every rise of lust, if it has its way reaches the height of villainy; it is like the grave that is never satisfied. The deceitfulness of sin is seen in that it is modest in its first proposals but when it prevails it hardens men’s hearts, and brings them to ruin.

  John Owen

  Heart, Men, Lust

• He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself

  John Owen

  Spring, Heart, Dragons

• No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to his mind and will.

  John Owen

  Lying, Heart, Mind

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.316

• When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

  John Owen

  Lying, Heart, Mind

• If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled." When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Lying, Heart

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.165, David C Cook

• I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of the week sufficient to prepare for their ministry, though they employ all the rest of the week in other studies. But your business is to trade with your spiritual abilities. ... A man may preach a very good sermon, who is otherwise himself; but he will never make a good minister of Jesus Christ, whose mind and heart are not always in the work. Spiritual gifts will require continual ruminating on the things of the Gospel in our minds.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Business

• It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.

  John Owen

  Distance, Heart, Dark

  John Owen (1904). “The Golden Book of John Owen: Passages from the Writings of the Rev. John Owen, M.A., D.D., Sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church”

• When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.

  John Owen

  Heart, Reality, Should Have

• Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

  John Owen

  Heart, Grace, Stones

• When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as water that fails; nor hath he said at any time to the seed of Jacob, "Seek ye my face in vain." If Christ be chosen for the foundation of our supply, he will not fail us.

  John Owen

  Heart, Water, Faces

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.83, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

• Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.

  John Owen

  Heart, Long, May

  John Owen (1970). “The correspondence of John Owen (1616-1683): with an account of his life and work”, Attic Pr

• As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.

  John Owen

  Heart, Loving Friends, Spirit

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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