John Owen Quotes About Duty

• Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can do these things by our own efforts is to trample on the cross and grace of Jesus Christ. Whatever God works in us by his grace, he commands us to do as our duty. God works all in us and by us.

  John Owen

  Jesus, Effort, Grace

• El primer y principal deber de un pastor es apacentar el rebaño mediante la predicación diligente de la palabra

  John Owen

  Firsts, Flocks, Duty

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.74

• 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

  Body, Deeds, May

  John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.8

• Los deberes que Dios exige de nosotros no son proporcionales a la fuerza que poseemos en nosotros mismos. Más bien, son proporcionales a los recursos de que disponemos en Cristo. No tenemos la capacidad en nosotros mismos para cumplir la menor de las tareas de Dios. Esta es la ley de la gracia. Cuando reconozcamos que nos es imposible realizar una tarea con nuestras propias fuerzas, descubriremos el secreto de su cumplimiento.

  John Owen

  Ley, Realización, Gracia

• Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.

  John Owen

  Weed, Prayer, Add

• He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though but one is so to him.

  John Owen

  Omission, Lust, Care

  "Temptation and Sin".

• It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.

  John Owen

  Enemy, Doe, Half

  John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.11

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