One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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 Image
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul. — 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
He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever 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
O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The soul of man, like the bird in the shell, is still growing or ripening in sin or grace, till at last… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest… — 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
![“Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .” quote by John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f26/john-flavel-4295_christ_christ-is-the-very-essence-of-all-deligh_1440135.jpg)
