All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
John OwenA true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.
John OwenThe vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
John OwenBy faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief.
John Owen