John Owen Quotes

• After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

  John Owen

• The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

  John Owen

• The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

  John Owen

• 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

• All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

  John Owen

• The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

  John Owen

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Leanness of body and soul may go together.

  John Owen

• I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

  John Owen

• All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

  John Owen

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Birth:	1616
Death:	1683
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Pastor, Theologian

About

John Owen was born in Stadhampton in Oxfordshire, England. He was an English pastor, theologian and academic administrator at the University of Oxford. He earned a BA degree and an MA degree both from Queen's College, Oxford. Among his works are historical treatises on religion, several studies of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, and defenses of Nonconformist, or Puritan, views. He was also dean of Christ Church Cathedral and was elected in 1654 to represent Oxford in Parliament, but he was later disqualified because of his clerical vocation. He wrote several books include: The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, The Mortification of Sin, The Works of John Owen, Indwelling Sin in Believers, The Glory of Christ, A Display of Arminianism, Spiritual-Mindedness, The Duty of Pastors, and Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded.

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