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Christ Quotes by John Flavel
- Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.
- The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.
- 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…
- Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.
- 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…
- No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
- Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.
- Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.
- Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.
- We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work…
- Faith, considered as a habit, is no more precious than other gracious habits are: but considered as an instrument to receive Christ and His righteousness…
- See that you receive Christ with all your heart. As there is nothing in Christ that may be refused, so there is nothing in you…
- You are not to come Christ because you are qualified, but that you may be qualified with whatever you want; and the best qualification you…
- No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. In all our afflictions, He afflicted. He feels all our sorrows, wants…
More Christ Quotes
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Teresa of Avila
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
- Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors,… — Teresa of Avila
- You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar. — Sebastian Bach
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face… — William Barclay
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth
- Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought… — Bruce Barton