John Owen — Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

Christ delights exceedingly in his saints. His heart is glad in us, without sorrow. And every day whilst we live is his wedding-day.

Eye the Father as love; look not on him as an always lowering father, but as one most kind and tender. Let us look on him by faith, as one that hath had thoughts of kindness towards us from everlasting.

Sin will not only be striving, acting, rebelling, troubling, disquieting, but if let alone, if not continually mortified, it will bring forth great, cursed, scandalous, soul-destroying sins.

He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, doth but half his work.

Without him they have nothing; in him they shall find all things.

There neither is, nor ever was, in the world, nor ever shall be, the least dram of holiness, but what, flowing from Jesus Christ, is communicated by the Spirit, according to the truth and promise of the gospel.