We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
John OwenSome relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.
John OwenGod never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.
John OwenIf a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
John OwenBelievers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.
John Owen