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We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

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John Owen
Age: 67 †
Born: 1616
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: August 24
Politician
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Theologian
Stadhampton
Oxon
John Owen (1616-1683)
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Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.
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It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.
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If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will our affections, and consequently our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed.
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Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
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Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.
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I did not hear what I should have listened to.
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That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.
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the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.
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Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
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Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the Son of God...Would you, then, see the true demerit of sin?-take the measure of it from the mediation of Christ, especially his cross.
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If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.
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Leanness of body and soul may go together.
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When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.
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He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.
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No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
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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.
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The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.
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Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious
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Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.
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