John Owen Quotes


"The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it."
- John Owen
(Related: Custom, Sense, Shame, World)

"Leanness of body and soul may go together."
- John Owen
(Related: Soul, Body, May)

"The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men."
- John Owen
(Related: Men, God, Judgment, World)

"The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace."
- John Owen
(Related: Gifts, Grace, May, Windows)

"After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes."
- John Owen
(Related: Causes, Hearing, Will)

"All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less."
- John Owen
(Related: Thought, Now)

"Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you."
- John Owen
(Related: Work, Day, Killing, Sin, Will)

"In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim."
- John Owen
(Related: May)

"I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend."
- John Owen
(Related: Friend, Now)

"All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit."
- John Owen
(Related: Spirit)

"The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh."
- John Owen
(Related: Life, Power, Comfort, Deeds, Spiritual)