John Flavel Quotes
Collection of top 60 famous quotes about John Flavel
John Flavel Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational John Flavel quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
