Temptation: Resisted and Repulsed
by John Owen
An abridged, modernized edition of John Owen's classic Of Temptation, built on Christ's warning in Matthew 26:41 to watch and pray. Owen distinguishes between simply being tempted and actually entering into temptation, then lays out how a believer can recognize the danger, guard the heart, and use watchfulness and prayer as the two great safeguards.
Based on Of Temptation: The Nature and Power of It (1658), by John Owen
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Owen
“We may be tempted, yet not enter into temptation.”
“God can make a way for a man to escape; when he is in, he can break the snare, tread down Satan, and make the soul more than a conqueror, though it have entered into temptation.”
“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.”
