John Flavel Quotes
Top 60 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Flavel
John Flavel Famous Quotes & Sayings
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As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.
Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.
Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.
He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.
The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own, but the arm of the Lord is revealed therein.
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.
The less fear a person has, the more happiness he has - unless, of course, it is that fear which is his happiness and excellence.
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.
One morsel of God's provision, especially when it comes in unexpectedly, and upon prayer, when wants are most, will be more sweet
What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!
For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.
A bad heart and a slippery memory deprive men of the comfort of many mercies, and defraud God of the glory due for them.
Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.
Two things destroy the peace and tranquility of our lives; our bewailing past disappointments, or fearing future ones.
There is not a greater discovery of pride in the world than in the contests of our wills with the will of God.
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.
Let all Arminians know: we have as high an esteem for faith as any men in the world, but yet we will not rob Christ to clothe faith.
The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
It is a good sign that our troubles are sanctified to us when they turn our hearts against sin, and not against God.
He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him.
Sin had so shut up mercy from us, that had not Christ made an atonement by his death, we should never have obtained it to all eternity.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.