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Quotes by John Owen

5 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an evil tree until he is weary; whilst the root abides in strength and vigor, the beating down the present fruit will not hinder it from bringing forth more.— filed under Regeneration

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.— filed under Selfishness

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.— filed under Sin

A believer is far more apt to be burdened with a sense of sin, and to feel the fear of it in his own character than an unbeliever; because if we are carried along the stream we fear nothing, and it is only when we strive against it, that its progress and power are discernible.— filed under Sin

Chastising is an effect of love. It is not only consequential to, but springs from it; wherefore there is nothing properly penal in the chastisement of believers. Punishment proceeds from love to justice, not from love to the person punished; but chastisement is from love to the person chastised, though mixed with displeasure against sin.— filed under Trials