The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. In all our afflictions, He afflicted. He feels all… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. — John Flavel Copy Share
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul. — John Flavel Copy Share
It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one. — John Flavel Copy Share
Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one. — John Flavel Copy Share
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action. — John Flavel Copy Share
All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot… — John Flavel Copy Share
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… — John Flavel Copy Share
You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often… — John Flavel Copy Share
There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the… — John Flavel Copy Share
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult… — John Flavel Copy Share
To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits… — John Flavel Copy Share
Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for… — John Flavel Copy Share
Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God. — John Flavel Copy Share
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves. — John Flavel Copy Share
