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Christian Quotes by John Flavel
- Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it;…
- Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it comes it will…
- Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the…
- 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.
- They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.
- What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be.
- To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.
- 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…
- 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! thou knowest thou carriest gunpowder about thee. Desire them that carry fire to keep at a distance. It is a dangerous crisis when a…
- The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the…
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- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar