God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty. — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really.… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little. — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father.… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
“Man's wisdom detracts from the glory of God, who is more honoured by the simplicity of the gospel, than luxuriance of wit.” — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
