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God 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;…
- If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb.…
- Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified…
- Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness…
- When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking…
- Let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all…
- Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental…
- [Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into 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.
- When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.
- One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
- As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.
- Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.
- God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.
- O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the…
- It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them:…
- Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi