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That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

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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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It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.
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There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.
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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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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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It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.
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We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.
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There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.
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There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on and it will be so whilst we live in this world.
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The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.
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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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There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old age. We must take a steady look at the glory of Christ in His special character, in His grace and work, as shown to us in the Scripture.
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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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Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
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It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
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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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