John Owen Quotes

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.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.

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

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.

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.

The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.

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

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.

Saintliness is also a temptation.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.

Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.