All John Flavel Quotes
- Grace makes the promise and providence the payment. Grace
- Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our… Any
- Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be… Appearance
- All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot wash… All
- The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards. Backwards
- Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown. Body
- The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying. Best
- One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul. Distressed
- Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards. Backwards
- Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith. Applied
- The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated. Christ
- As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low. Choose
- The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be… Age
- Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul. Christ
- There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the damning… Abominable
- For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding. All
- Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God. Distress
- God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms. Any
- No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. Christ
- I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian… Christian