Mortification Of Sin Quotes

#1. The life, vigour, and comfort of our spiritual life depend much on our mortification of sin.

John Owen

#2. Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.

John Owen

#3. Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.

John Owen

#4. And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.

Auberon Herbert

#5. Thus I spoke, and always more softly, for I was afraid of my thoughts, and of the thoughts behind my thoughts. Then, suddenly I heard a dog howl near me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. As the most powerful people in history, we have climbed to the top of the world food chain, so to speak. Facing not one single enemy or predator who poses to us any danger of consequence, we've found the only prey left: ourselves.

Gavin De Becker

#7. The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

John Owen

#8. It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Thomas A Kempis

#9. I'm keeping it," he said.
"Okay. But you have to give me something in return."
"What would you like? And please keep your requests above the neck.

Tiffany Reisz

#10. When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

John Owen

#11. Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

John Owen

#12. I say, then, that mortification is the work of believers, and believers only. To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live. 2.

John Owen

#13. I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

Eva Zeisel

#14. Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

John Owen

#15. That the mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.

John Owen

#16. Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

William Lloyd Garrison

#17. Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports. You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment. You have to have the transportation to get there.

Mark Wahlberg

#18. A sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification

John Owen

#19. Living the life you want is your ultimate responsibility

Andrea T. Goeglein