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Men Quotes by John Flavel
- 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.
- To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.
- Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no…
- 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…
- One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed 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…
- 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…
- 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:…
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