Extremity Quote by John Flavel Download Open image “Man's extremity is God's opportunity.” — John Flavel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Extremity God Man Opportunity
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. Men’s hands can’t be strong when God… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for… — David Platt Copy Share Image
God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“So much the more men exalt themselves, so much the less will they surely be disposed to exalt God. ’Tis certainly a thing that… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early… — E. M. Bounds Copy Share Image
Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
When you conceal inner reality, this pressure builds. You often don't expose yourself until it reaches extremity, a breaking point, and what emerges is… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom;… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be around anybody because it was just too much for my brain. But, as an actress, you hope you get… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of feline digital… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
