267 Quotes by John Owen

Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.

The gospel shall be victorious. This greatly comforts and refreshes me.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

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.

There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.

Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.

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

For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.

He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself