John Owen Quotes

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.

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.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It's important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.