Quotes of John Owen - somelinesforyou

“ One lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through. ”

- John Owen

“ I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend. ”

- John Owen

“ Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doth. ”

- John Owen

“ 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

“ Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doth. ”

- John Owen

“ Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doth. ”

- John Owen

“ Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. ”

- John Owen

“ 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

“ The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. ”

- John Owen

“ In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle — that is, the heart. ”

- John Owen

“ It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much of heaven may be obtained in holiness on the earth. ”

- John Owen

“ Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doth. ”

- John Owen

“ Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round, And whom both Poles of heaven once saw Which North and South do bound, The stars above would make thee known, If men here silent were; The sun himself cannot forget His fellow traveller. ”

- John Owen

“ In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle — that is, the heart. ”

- John Owen

“ Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round, And whom both Poles of heaven once saw Which North and South do bound, The stars above would make thee known, If men here silent were; The sun himself cannot forget His fellow traveller. ”

- John Owen

“ Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doth. ”

- John Owen

“ 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. ”

- John Owen

“ 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

“ After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes. ”

- John Owen

“ 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

“ Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. ”

- John Owen

“ 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

“ All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less. ”

- John Owen

“ One lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through. ”

- John Owen

“ Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life. He that cannot endure to live to God will as little endure to bear of being born of God. ”

- John Owen

“ One lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through. ”

- John Owen

“ It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much of heaven may be obtained in holiness on the earth. ”

- John Owen

“ 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

“ All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. ”

- John Owen

“ Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. ”

- John Owen
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