WIST Quotations

Owen, John -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.

John Owen (1616-1683) English clergyman and theologian
(Attributed)

Owen, John -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things spiritual and things temporal, or civil. Whilst men are under the power of actual impressions from such fears, they will convert to God, yea, they will turn in a moment, and perfect their holiness in an instant; but so soon as that impression wears off (as it will do on every occasion, and upon none at all) such persons are as dead and cold towards God as the lead or iron, which but now ran in a fiery stream, is now when the heat is departed from it.

John Owen (1616-1683) English clergyman and theologian
(Attributed)

Owen, John -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they are in the right in religion than the inclination they find in themselves to hate and persecute them whom they suppose to be in the wrong.

John Owen (1616-1683) English clergyman and theologian
(Attributed)