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• Christ greatly delights in
  his people and they greatly
  delight in him

  John Owen

  People, Delight, Christ

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• Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.

  John Owen

  Feet, Blood, Sick

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.79, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.

  John Owen

  Men, Sight, Doe

  JOHN OWEN, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE GLORY OF CHRIST”, Lulu.com

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• Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

  John Owen

  Self, Sea, Ideas

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• We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?

  John Owen

  Religious, Design, Heaven

  John Owen (1828). “Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded”, p.204

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• In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect.

  John Owen

  Grace, Overcoming, Spirit

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• There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old age. We must take a steady look at the glory of Christ in His special character, in His grace and work, as shown to us in the Scripture.

  John Owen

  Character, Grace, Age

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• Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

  John Owen

  Self, Mind, Beloved

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.150

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• Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

  John Owen

  Quiet, Sin, Mortification

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.11, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world.

  John Owen

  World, Sin, This World

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.11, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.

  John Owen

  Desert, Saving, May

  John Owen (2001). “Communion with God”, p.101, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• 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

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• So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

  John Owen

  Soul, Care, Sin

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• 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

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• 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”

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• The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

  John Owen

  Spirit, Sin, Lord

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

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• Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

  John Owen

  Men, Self, Beginnings And Ends

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• If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.

  John Owen

  Peace, Men, Meditation

  John Owen (1990). “The Works of John Owen”

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• It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

  John Owen

  Mean, Eye, Men

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.34, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

  John Owen

  Sin, Trouble, Evident

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• 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

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• Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

  John Owen

  Servant Of God, Christ, Servant

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.605

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• 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

  Jesus, Grace, Christ

  John Owen (1841). “A treatise on the Holy Spirit and his operations: An exposition of the 130th Psalm”, p.233

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• We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Blessing, Bread

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• Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

  John Owen

  Liberty, May, Action

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