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May 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon…
- 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…
- I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden…
- 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…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle