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Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.
— John Flavel
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.
— John Flavel
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.
— John Flavel
A cross without a Christ never did any man good.
— John Flavel
Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.
— John Flavel
If I yield to thy temptation, I must either feel the pangs of conscience, or the flames of hell.
— John Flavel
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.
— John Flavel
If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.
— John Flavel
The Lord shall do all for thee, and thou shalt do nothing, but be the Sabbath of Christ.
— John Flavel
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.
— John Flavel
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.
— John Flavel
God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.
— John Flavel
The less fear a person has, the more happiness he has - unless, of course, it is that fear which is his happiness and excellence.
— John Flavel
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.
— John Flavel
One morsel of God's provision, especially when it comes in unexpectedly, and upon prayer, when wants are most, will be more sweet
— John Flavel
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!
— John Flavel
For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.
— John Flavel
A bad heart and a slippery memory deprive men of the comfort of many mercies, and defraud God of the glory due for them.
— John Flavel
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
— John Flavel
Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.
— John Flavel
Two things destroy the peace and tranquility of our lives; our bewailing past disappointments, or fearing future ones.
— John Flavel
There is not a greater discovery of pride in the world than in the contests of our wills with the will of God.
— John Flavel
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
— John Flavel
Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.
— John Flavel
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.
— John Flavel
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.
— John Flavel
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.
— John Flavel
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
— John Flavel
Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.
— John Flavel
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
— John Flavel
most men rather need the spur, than the reins
— John Flavel
My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.
— John Flavel
It is a good sign that our troubles are sanctified to us when they turn our hearts against sin, and not against God.
— John Flavel
The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.
— John Flavel
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.
— John Flavel
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.
— John Flavel
Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.
— John Flavel
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
— John Flavel
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.
— John Flavel