John Owen Quotes

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

There’s another force that wants to keep us from going to Washington DC. It is the devil.

If there is no struggle there is no progress…. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

All my life, from birth, it's been a fight. And it always seemed to be another man's war. I always seemed to be fighting for someone else. But it always came back to me. The Word says we're born into sin, and sin always comes back to war.

Got demons on both shoulders.

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.