John Flavel

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

— John Flavel

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

— John Flavel

It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

— John Flavel

Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.

— John Flavel

Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.

— John Flavel

All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the…

— 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…

— John Flavel

You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is,…

— John Flavel

There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and…

— 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…

— John Flavel

To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame,…

— John Flavel

Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but…

— John Flavel

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

— John Flavel

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

— John Flavel

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

— John Flavel

Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it…

— John Flavel

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

— John Flavel

A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as…

— John Flavel

Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our…

— John Flavel

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

— John Flavel

We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not…

— John Flavel

Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's…

— John Flavel

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

— John Flavel

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

— John Flavel

When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances…

— John Flavel