If we neglect to make use of what we have received, God may justly hold His hand from giving us more. His graces, as well as His gifts, are bestowed on us to use, exercise, and trade with. Not to be daily mortifying sin is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who has furnished us with a principle of doing it.
John Owen ('On the Mortification of Sin in Believers')














