Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.
John OwenIt must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of spiritual things excited, multiplied, and confirmed, by the preaching of the word.
John OwenWe shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.
John OwenWe are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
John OwenHerein would I live; herein would I die; hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections; to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, unto the crucifying all things here below, until they become unto me a dead and deformed thing, no way meet for affectionate embraces.
John Owen