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> [Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/brethren-it-is-easier-to-declaim-against-a-thousand-sins-of-others/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

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> [Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/let-us-see-that-our-knowledge-of-christ-be-not-a-powerless-barren/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

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> [Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/sometimes-god-makes-use-of-instruments-for-good-to-his-people-who/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

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## Other authors on Brethren

## More by John Flavel

> [No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/no-doctrine-is-more-excellent-or-necessary-to-be-preached-and-studied/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/one-word-of-god-can-do-more-than-ten-thousand-words-of-men-to-relieve/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/it-is-better-to-be-as-low-as-hell-with-a-promise-than-in-paradise/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/christ-comes-with-kingly-power-to-rescue-sinners-as-a-prey-from-the/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/regeneration-expresses-those-supernatural-divine-new-qualities/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/all-the-tears-of-a-penitent-sinner-should-he-shed-as-many-as-there/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/the-lord-s-supper-is-memorative-and-so-it-has-the-nature-and-use-of-a/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/you-may-look-upon-some-providences-once-and-again-and-see-little-or/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/there-is-no-grace-more-excellent-than-faith-no-sin-more-execrable-and/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/all-the-dark-intricate-puzzling-providences-at-which-we-were/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/to-keep-the-heart-then-is-carefully-to-preserve-it-from-sin-which/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/lord-here-is-my-body-i-am-very-grateful-for-it-i-neglected-nothing/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/some-providences-like-hebrew-letters-must-be-read-backwards/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/whatever-be-the-ground-of-one-s-distress-it-should-drive-him-to-not/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

> [Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flavel/brethren-it-is-easier-to-declaim-against-a-thousand-sins-of-others/)

[John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flavel/)

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