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John Flavel Quotes

1627–1691 England

John Flavel (c. 1627 – 1691) was an English Presbyterian clergyman and theologian.

England
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Also known as: Flavel, John

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Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

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How much better it is to see men live exactly than to hear them argue with subtlety!

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

See that you receive Christ with all your heart. As there is nothing in Christ that may be refused, so there is nothing in you from which He must be excluded.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

They that know God will be humble,
They that know themselves cannot be proud.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Consult the honor of religion more, and your personal safety less. Is it for the honor of religion (think you) that Christians should be as timorous as hares to start at every sound?

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Unbelief makes a man guilty of the vilest contempt of Christ, and the whole design of redemption by Him.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

There are three acts of faith, assent, acceptance, and assurance.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Faith is the bond of union, the instrument of justification, the spring of spiritual peace and joy, the means of spiritual peace and subsistence.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Alas! that Christians should stand at the door of eternity having more work upon their hands than their time is sufficient for, and yet be filling their heads and hearts with trifles.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The greatest difficulty in conversion is to win the heart to God and after conversion to keep it with Him.

When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.

Christian! thou knowest thou earriest gunpowder about thee. Desire them that carry fire to keep at a distance. It is a dangerous crisis, when a proud heart meets with flattering lips.

It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.

The soul that rightly receives Christ is in a longing condition; never did the hart pant for the water brooks, never did the hireling desire the shadow, never did a condemned person long for a pardon more than the soul longs for Christ.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

It is easier to declaim like an orator against a thousand sins in others than to mortify one sin in ourselves; to be more industrious in our pulpits than in our closets; to preach twenty sermons to our people than one to our own hearts.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until He quickens us, imparts the principle of divine life to our souls, we can put forth no vital act of faith to lay hold upon Jesus Christ.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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