John Flavel Quotes

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• When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of… All
• Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental… Advancement
• [Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the… Afflicted
• The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little. Carnal
• They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud. Christian
• What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be. Children
• To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world. Christian
• Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history… Appear
• Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had… All
• When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them. Comfort
• Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the… All
• It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your… Affliction
• What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to… Admired
• Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your… Christian
• A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a… Bring
• To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it… Carefully
• Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my… Away Forever
• What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when… Infancy
• It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states… All
• Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no… Among

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