Searching Our Hearts in Difficult Times
by John Owen
A Banner of Truth Puritan Paperback that gathers John Owen's pastoral talks and sermons on self-examination, assurance, and perseverance when the church and wider culture are in spiritual decline. Owen presses searching questions that still unsettle serious believers: how much conviction of sin is enough, whether grace and a sin-habit can coexist, and how anyone can be certain they are truly converted.
Based on John Owen's posthumously published sermons, Works of John Owen, Vol. 9
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Owen
“The latter days of churches are always perilous days, days full of danger.”
“Unless we are upon our watch and guard, and cry mightily unto God for help and assistance, we shall be all overtaken with perils and dangers in the days wherein we live.”
“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.”
“All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.”
