Mortification from a self strength, carried on by ways of self invention, unto the end of a self righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
John Owen
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No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.
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Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
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Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self opinionated thinkers.
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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
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Mortification from a selfstrength, carried on by ways of selfinvention, unto the end of a selfrighteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
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The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.
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We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.
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But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition.
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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace
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Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you
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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction
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The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
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All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
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