John Owen Quotes

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!

A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Only sinners need saviors.

I've committed adultery in my heart.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

Light and lust are deadly enemies.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.