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To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is to overthrow the gospel and the faith of the universal church in all ages.
John Owen
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John Owen
Age: 67 †
Born: 1616
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: August 24
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Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.
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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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We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.
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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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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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Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.
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Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.
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If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.
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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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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 wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
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Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
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We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.
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It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
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And as men diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the world than they can well manage, they shall have more to do from Satan than they can withstand.
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See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.
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The seed of every sin is in every heart.
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By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief.
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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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