John Owen Quotes

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

I've committed adultery in my heart.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!

I regret my disbelief in God.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child.

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.

I believe in God, Almighty. I'm a Christian.