John Owen Quotes

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

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.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted.

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

I’m not looking for self-control.

I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up to sin. He is more impressed by the obedience I show when I run from it.

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.

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.

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

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.