Crumbs from the Master's Table

"The great contest of heaven and earth is about the affections of the poor worm which we call man." —John Owen,  The Grace and D...

Bridges on Owen: For luminous exposition, and powerful defense of Scriptural doctrine—for determined enforcement of practical obligations—...

Spurgeon on Owen: It is unnecessary to say that he is the prince of divines. To master his works is to be a profound theologian. Owen is s...

Ferguson on the structure of John Owen's thought about the ministry of the Spirit of Christ to the believer: The Spirit brings us into...

"One spiritual view of the divine goodness, beauty, and holiness, will have more efficacy to raise the heart unto a contempt of all ear...

J. C. Ryle: I am quite aware that Owen's writings are not fashionable in the present day. . . . Yet the great divine . . . [has] more ...

Owen: Let us not mistake ourselves. To be spiritually minded is, not to have the notion and knowledge of spiritual things in our minds; it...

John Owen: It is a vain thing for any to suppose that they place their chiefest happiness in being for ever in the presence of Christ, who...

Owen: It belongs unto the true notion of heaven, that it is a state wherein we shall be eternally freed from sin and all the concernments ...

Owen: When our Saviour requires that we should part with all for his sake and the gospel, he promiseth a hundredfold in lieu of them, even...

Owen on our heavenly and holy hope: Hope in general is but an uncertain expectation of a future good which we desire; but as it is a gospe...

Commenting on 2 Cor. 4:16-18, John Owen instructs the twenty-first century and our worldliness: Not to faint under the daily decays of our...

Owen on how to stand against temptations: There are three things required unto this duty, and spiritual wisdom unto them all. First, know ...

Owen: It is our duty greatly to mind the things that are above, eternal things, both as unto their reality, their present state, and our f...

Commenting on Mic. 6:9, Owen pleads: There is a call, a cry in every rod of God, in every chastening providence , and therein [he] makes a...

In his Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded , John Owen labors in chapter 4 to answer the question, how may we "know when we abou...

How may we know that our prayers pour forth from an internal fountain of grace, that is, from new life within imparted by the Spirit of God,...

Owen: One principal end of [the duty of prayer] is to excite, stir up, and draw forth, the principle of grace, of faith and love in the he...

Owen: I acknowledge that these are the two things whereby I regulate my work in the whole course of my ministry. To impart those truths of...

John Owen on an important distinction between the old and new covenants: This then is one main difference of these two covenants—that the ...