John Owen Quotes

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

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.

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.

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!

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

Men are not born saints with special gifts and privileges. They fight against the world, the flesh and the devil, and as they conquer, the spirit of Jesus begins to shine through with more clarity.

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.

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

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

The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

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.

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

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

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

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

Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.