267 Quotes by John Owen

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.

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

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

As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace.

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.

A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.

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

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.