“On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.”1
“Satan’s greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.”
“We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.”
“If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.”
“There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience…”
“There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.”
“Let not man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.”
“The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.”
“Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.”
“I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.”
“The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.”
“We must not be concerned only with that which troubles us, but with all that troubles God.”
“Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.”
“There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.”
“He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.”
“When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.”
“Christ’s blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.”
“We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.”
“We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.”
“There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
The Glory of Christ Quotes by John Owen
Inspirational Quotes by John Owen