You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents… — 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
Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be… — 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
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
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent… — 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
![“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 passage through the wilderness was to Israel, "the right way to the city of habitation".” quote by John Flavel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/58c/john-flavel-4295_christian_all-the-dark-intricate-puzzling-providen_333825.jpg)
