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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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John Owen
Age: 67 †
Born: 1616
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: August 24
Politician
Religious
Theologian
Stadhampton
Oxon
John Owen (1616-1683)
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Unbelievers

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That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.
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The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.
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Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge.
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A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.
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For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.
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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.
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The gospel shall be victorious. This is the third thing that greatly comforts and refreshes me, — that if God should give me the honour, the strength, and grace to die in this cause, my cause shall be victorious, as sure as if I had the crown in my hand.
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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.
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Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.
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If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.
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Now nothing can prevent this but mortification that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.
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Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.
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If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.
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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.
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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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Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.
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He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.
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We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
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