Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do… — 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 Image
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
