Friday, July 25, 2008

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers. John OwenBiography-Website

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them. John OwenBiography-Website


“The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it”
John Owen quote


“Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you”
John Owen quote


“In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim”
John Owen quote

from johnowen.org ....a puritan theologian

Oh how todays society hates the Puritans! and so it behooves us to admire them.....


Let our hearts admit, "I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.

John OwenBiography-Website