Burning Quote by John Flavel

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

— John Flavel

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

— John Flavel

It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

— John Flavel

Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.

— John Flavel

Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.

— John Flavel

The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying…

— John Flavel

You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often…

— John Flavel

There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the…

— 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…

— John Flavel

To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits…

— John Flavel

Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for…

— John Flavel

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

— John Flavel