John Owen
John Owen
water may quiet
When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.
dying sin opposition
He who finds not opposition from [sin]... is at peace with it, not dying to it.
men alive sin
To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.
heart water foundation
When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as water that fails; nor hath he said at any time to the seed of Jacob, "Seek ye my face in vain." If Christ be chosen for the foundation of our supply, he will not fail us.
god-is-love teach folly
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.
angel men safety
To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!
work-out able christianity
He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.
heart men world
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
spiritual blood flesh
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
sea ideas self
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.
causes obedience due-time
See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.
saving may desert
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.
men grace doctrine
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.
roots soul mind
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.