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John Owen
English
Theologian
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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
John Owen,
English
Theologian
#Food
#May
#Man
#Destruction
#Temptation
#Exercise
#Poison
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
John Owen,
English
Theologian
#World
#Sense
#Custom
#Shame
Leanness of body and soul may go together.
John Owen,
English
Theologian
#May
#Soul
#Body
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
John Owen,
English
Theologian
#God
#World
#Men
#Judgment
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,
English
Theologian
#Grace
#May
#Windows
#Gifts
After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.
John Owen,
English
Theologian
#Will
#Hearing
#Causes
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
John Owen,
English
Theologian
#Now
#Thought
Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
John Owen,
English
Theologian
#Work
#Will
#Day
#Killing
#Sin
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,
English
Theologian
#May
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
John Owen,
English
Theologian
#Now
#Friend
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
John Owen,
English
Theologian
#Spirit
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
John Owen,
English
Theologian
#Life
#Comfort
#Power
#Spiritual
#Deeds