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John Owen [1616-1683] English
Rank: 107
Theologian


John Owen was an English Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
He was briefly a member of parliament for the University, sitting in the First Protectorate Parliament of 1654 to 1655.

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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. Food
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The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
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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.
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In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
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All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
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Leanness of body and soul may go together.
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The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
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All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
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After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.
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I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
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