Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
John OwenSteadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.
John OwenAssurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.
John OwenThe love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves – unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His, like the sun, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose; ours, as the moon, has its enlargements and straightenings.
John Owen