John Owen

Pardoning mercy is God’s free, gracious acceptance of a sinner upon satisfaction made to his justice in the blood of Jesus

—John Owen

All that can stand in competition with him for our affections, must be our own endeavours for a righteousness to commend us to God.

—John Owen

He avenges his elect that cry unto him; yea, he doth is speedily.

—John Owen

The generation of the people of God in the world are at this day alive, undevoured, merely on the account of the intercession of the Lord Jesus.

—John Owen

Believers are unacquainted with their own condition, if they look upon their mercies as dispensed in a way of common providence.

—John Owen

To save sinners through believing, shall be found to be a far more admirable work than to create the world from nothing.

—John Owen

We have not a deliverance from trouble, a recovering of health, ease of pain, freedom from any evil that ever laid hold upon us, but it is given us on the intercession of Jesus Christ.

—John Owen

Help being a thing that regards want, is always excellent; but its coming in season puts a crown upon it.

—John Owen

Christ hath a fellow feeling with his saints in all their troubles, as a man hath with his own flesh.

—John Owen

The Scripture knows of no earnings that men can make of themselves but death

—John Owen

The true reason why any despise *the new birth* is, because they hate *a new life*.

—John Owen

There is no such division in the external operations of God that any one of them should be the act of one person, without the concurrence of the others

—John Owen

To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.

—John Owen

To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.

—John Owen

He parted with the greatest glory, he underwent the greatest misery, he doth the greatest works that ever were, because he loves his spouse, – because he values believers.

—John Owen

Show me the sinner that can spread his iniquities to the dimensions (if I may so say) of this grace. Here is mercy enough for the greatest, the oldest, the stubbornest transgressor, – ‘Why will ye die, O house of Israel?’

—John Owen

Show me the sinner that can spread his iniquities to the dimensions (if I may so say) of this grace. Here is mercy enough for the greatest, the oldest, the stubbornest transgressor, – ‘Why will ye die, O house of Israel?’

—John Owen

The knowledge of him as a God in Christ pardoning sin and saving sinners is attainable by the gospel only.

—John Owen

Let us tell him that we will be for him, and not for another: let him know it from us; he delights to hear it, yea, he says, ‘Sweet is our voice, and our countenance is comely;’- and we shall not fail in the issue of sweet refreshment with him.

—John Owen

Let us tell him that we will be for him, and not for another: let him know it from us; he delights to hear it, yea, he says, ‘Sweet is our voice, and our countenance is comely;’- and we shall not fail in the issue of sweet refreshment with him.

—John Owen

All that he parted withal, all that he did, all that he suffered, all that he doth as mediator; he parted withal, did, suffered, doth, on the account *of his love to and esteem of believers*.

—John Owen

All is welcome that comes from him, or for him.

—John Owen

Christ and a dungeon, Christ and a cross, is infinitely sweeter than a crown, a sceptre without him

—John Owen

The reason of this dealing of Christ with his church, in parting with all others for them, is, because he loves her. She is precious and honourable in his sight; thence he puts this great esteem upon her.

—John Owen

The reason of this dealing of Christ with his church, in parting with all others for them, is, because he loves her. She is precious and honourable in his sight; thence he puts this great esteem upon her.

—John Owen

What more can be done? – to die for us when we were sinners!

—John Owen

Such a death, in such a manner, with such attendancies of wrath and curse, – a death accompanied with the worst that God had ever threatened to sinners, – argues as high a valuation of us as the heart of Christ himself was capable of.

—John Owen

Such a death, in such a manner, with such attendancies of wrath and curse, – a death accompanied with the worst that God had ever threatened to sinners, – argues as high a valuation of us as the heart of Christ himself was capable of.

—John Owen

A man would not for ten thousand worlds be willing to undergo that which Christ underwent for us in that one thing of desertion from God, were it attended with no more distress but what a mere creature might possibly emerge from under.

—John Owen

A man would not for ten thousand worlds be willing to undergo that which Christ underwent for us in that one thing of desertion from God, were it attended with no more distress but what a mere creature might possibly emerge from under.

—John Owen