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As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.

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John Owen
Age: 67 †
Born: 1616
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: August 24
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Stadhampton
Oxon
John Owen (1616-1683)
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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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When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.
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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.
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Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.
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There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.
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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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Leanness of body and soul may go together.
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On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.
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Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.
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The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
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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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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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Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.
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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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We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
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