John Owen Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.

  John Owen

  Lying, Support, Weight

• 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

• You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.

  John Owen

  Life, Peace, Lying

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

• Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Lying, Sins Not

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Mortification of Sin”, Lulu.com

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