John Owen Quotes

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

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

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

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

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Every person who is tempted to go astray does not deserve punishment

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

There were times when I was tempted to do wrong, and could have went that way. But I knew it wasn't for me. I was told enough times that it catches up with you, and I believe it.

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.