To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.
John OwenTemptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
John OwenThen are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.
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 OwenI will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.
John Owen