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Brandon,
Here is one of my favorite Owen quotes:
“The vigor, power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of the deeds of the flesh.”
~ John Owen
~ Erik
I’m sorry, I don’t rember where I read this but here it is:
“To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have the power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of non-effect.”
John Owen
2 quotes, but I don’t know the sources:
“All apostasy for the most part begins in the will, which is more bruised by the fall than the understanding.”
“The aim of grace is to humble the soul; and the aim of sin, to defile it.”
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun’s withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.