John Owen Quotes About Obedience

Quotes about: Obedience

• See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.

  John Owen

  Causes, Obedience, Dues

• 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

• There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.

  John Owen

  Way, Revelations, Obedience

  John Owen (1852). “The Works ...”, p.158

• To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is to overthrow the gospel and the faith of the universal church in all ages.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Thinking, Giving

• Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

  John Owen

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  John Owen “Epistle to the Hebrews”, Kregel Publications

• There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

  John Owen

  Peace, Perfect, Obedience

  "The Works of John Owen".

• All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Blood, Flesh

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.122

• We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid and assistance we may live unto God in that holy obedience which he requires at our hands.

  John Owen

  Hands, Giving, May

  John Owen (1841). “A treatise on the Holy Spirit and his operations: An exposition of the 130th Psalm”, p.84

• Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.

  John Owen

  Weed, Prayer, Add

• We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

  John Owen

  Principles, Obedience, Good Work

• Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

  John Owen

  Effort, Compromise, Sin

• He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though but one is so to him.

  John Owen

  Omission, Lust, Care

  "Temptation and Sin".

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