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I did not hear what I should have listened to.

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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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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
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The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.
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Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world therefore it is always to be mortified.
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Herein would I live herein would I die hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, unto the crucifying all things here below, until they become unto me a dead and deformed thing, no way meet for affectionate embraces.
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It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.
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There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.
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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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If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled. When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.
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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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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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A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.
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There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves - of God, in His greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.
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God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.
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We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.
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There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.
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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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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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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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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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