Communion with God
by John Owen
In this warm and searching treatise, John Owen unfolds how a believer enjoys real, distinct fellowship with each Person of the Trinity: communing with the Father in his free love, with the Son in grace, and with the Holy Spirit in comfort. Far from a dry defense of doctrine, it is a pastoral guide meant to draw the soul into settled assurance and delight in God. This edition is R. J. K. Law's accessible abridgment.
Based on Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (1657), Works of John Owen, Vol. 2
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Owen
“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.”
“Communion consists in giving and receiving. Until the love of the Father be received, we have no communion with him therein.”
“Few can carry up their hearts and minds to this height by faith, as to rest their souls in the love of the Father; they live below it, in the troublesome region of hopes and fears, storms and clouds. All here is serene and quiet.”
“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
“He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.”
“Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.”
“Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.”
“Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.”
“A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.”
“To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead, sin is alive, and will live.”
