Stephen Charnock Quotes

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• It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other…
• It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had…
• All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
• No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some,…
• Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.
• Frequently renew settled and holy resolutions. A soldier unresolved to fight may be easily defeated...The weakness of our graces, the strength of our temptations, and…
• Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.
• A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.
• This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven.
• Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.
• Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.
• We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.
• 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…
• How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our…
• God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It…
• Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should…
• What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as…
• Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.
• In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not…
• When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had…

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