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• Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.

  John Owen

  Believe, Blow, Wind

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

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• The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

  John Owen

  World, Compromise, Sin

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.343

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• I did not hear what I should have listened to.

  John Owen

  Should Have, Should Have Listened, Should

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.161, David C Cook

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• In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

  John Owen

  Elephants, Swim, Wade

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• Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

  John Owen

  Religious, Darkness, Affliction

  John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.583

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• It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

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  Evil, Threatening, Holy

  John Owen (1826). “The Works of John Owen”, p.50

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• The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.

  John Owen

  Roots, Soul, Mind

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• Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

  John Owen

  Men, Vices, Corruption

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• All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

  John Owen

  Lust, Christ, Vain

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

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• 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. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.

  John Owen

  Blow, Men, Thinking

  John Owen (1994). “The Works of John Owen”

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• I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

  John Owen

  Wish, Worst, Stills

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• The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.

  John Owen

  Body, Deeds, May

  John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.8

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• God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.

  John Owen

  Our Generation, Justice, Generations

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

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• A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Men, Free Will

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.128

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• 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

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• 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

  Sin, Mortification, Believer

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

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• The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such as no hand of man can represent or shadow. It is the eye of faith alone that can see this King in his beauty. What else can contemplate on the untreated glories of his divine nature? Can the hand of man represent the union of his natures in the same person, wherein he is peculiarly amiable? What eye can discern the mutual communications of the properties of his different natures in the same person?

  John Owen

  Kings, Communication, Eye

  John Owen (1679). “Christologia Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power of God in the Contrivance and Constitution Thereof ...”, p.197

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• Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings; be able to say, at its most secret actings, 'This is your old way and course; I know what you aim at.'

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  Spiritual, Secret, Acting

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• 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

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• To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.

  John Owen

  Christian, Prayer, Men

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

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• He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.

  John Owen

  Blow, Issues, Enemy

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

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• He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.

  John Owen

  Dying, Sin, Opposition

  "Temptation and Sin".

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• Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the thing longed after...unless you long for deliverance you shall not have it.

  John Owen

  Breathing, Long, Grace

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• 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.

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  Weed, Prayer, Add

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• The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

  John Owen

  Rocks, House, Grace

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.654

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