All John Flavel Quotes
- 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
- 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