267 Quotes by John Owen

The flesh would fain be indulged upon the account of grace: and every word that is spoken of mercy, it stands ready to catch at, and to pervert to its own corrupt aims and purposes. To apply mercy, then, to a sin not vigorously mortified, is to fulfil the end of the flesh pon the gospel.

The use of means for the obtaining of peace is ours; the bestowing of it is God’s prerogative.

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.

Not to see the wisdom of God, and the power of God, and consequently all the other holy properties of his nature, in Christ, is to be an unbeliever.

The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will.

Free will is “corrupted nature’s deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds”

But whatever dismal appearance of things there may be in the world, we need not fear the ruin of the church by the most bloody oppositions. Former experiences will give security against future events. It is built on the rock, and those gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God’s elect, that they should believe.

There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.