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One Quotes by John Flavel
- All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage…
- To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.
- 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…
- 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…
- All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot wash…
- One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
- 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…
- Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.
- Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be…
- It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.
- Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
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