I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the … - John Owen

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I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214

John Owen

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

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We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?

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As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend. . . so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.

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Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.

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Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

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Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.

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