Faith, love, trust, joy and obedience are the saints’ responses to the Father’s loving acts shown to them.
– John Owen –
John Owen
Live Like You Pray – John Owen
He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
– John Owen –
Finding Shelter and Fruit Amidst the Storm – John Owen
Did you never run to a tree for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you did not expect? Did you never go to God for safeguard in these times, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit, the peaceable fruit of righteousness, that made you say, “Happy tempest, which cast me into such a harbor”?
– John Owen –
1616 –1683
Knowing Our Privileges – John Owen
Our greatest hindrance in the Christian life is not our lack of effort but our lack of acquaintedness with our privileges.
– John Owen –
Revealing What’s Inside You – John Owen
Temptations and occasions put nothing into man, but only draw out what was in him before.
– John Owen –
1616-1683
What Holiness Is – John Owen
Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing, and realizing of the gospel in our souls.
– John Owen –
1616-1683
Do Not Merely Divert Sin – John Owen
A sin is not mortified when it is only diverted.
– John Owen –
from The Mortification of Sin, 1656
Clinging to Christ – John Owen
The first effect of a true love for Christ is our clinging to him. The believer’s soul is knit to Christ’s soul as David’s was to Jonathan’s (1 Samuel 18:1). Love produces a firm clinging to Christ crucified that makes a soul in some sense always present with Christ on the cross.
– John Owen –
from The Holy Spirit, 1674
Lost in Holy Amazement of His Love – John Owen
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
– John Owen –
1616-1683 AD