John Owen

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.