John Owen

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

The peace of Christ consists in the soul's sense of its acceptation with God in friendship.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

The person who never meditates on the glory of Christ in the Scriptures now will not have any real desire to see that glory in heaven.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

A minister may fill pews, his communion roll, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is & no more.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

For the most part we live upon successes, not promises: unless we see and feel the print of victories, we will not believe.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

Christ says to His people, "I will bear that burden of guilt and punishment which would sink you to hell for ever."

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

God's love precedes His discipline.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

For no sin whereof men can be guilty in this world is of so horrible a nature, and so dreadful an aspect, as is this unbelief.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

Christ loves life, grace and holiness into us; He loves us into covenant, loves us into heaven.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

We cannot love grace into a child, nor mercy into a friend; we cannot love them into heaven, though it be the greatest desire of our soul.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

We shall be wise if we are always ready for any experience which God may allow us to pass through.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

He who is God cannot ever cease to be God.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

We need to be aware of our own natural tempers, so as to watch out for the treachery that lies in them.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

The Comforter gives a sweet and plentiful evidence and persuasion of the love of God to us, such as the soul is taken and delighted withal.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay upon the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to Him is not to believe that He loves you.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

To suppose that whatever God requires of us, we have power of ourselves to do it, is to make the cross & grace of Christ of none effect.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

How many millions of sins in every one of the elect, every one of which is enough to condemn them all, hath this love overcome!

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

All men that know anything of prayer speak glorious things of this duty.

[John Owen @RevJohnOwen]

Think of the guilt of sin, that you may be humbled. Think of the power of sin, that you may seek strength against it.