"What a mercy was it to us to……" — John Flavel
"What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!"
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John Flavel
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81 Quotes by John Flavel
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That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
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Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid…
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The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there…
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Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to…
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Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but…
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If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.
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Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if…
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Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your…
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Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this…
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If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the…
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How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the…
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More Infancy Quotes
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I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.
— Michelle Bachelet
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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
— Sigmund Freud
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The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true,…
— Jon Franklin
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves…
— John Playfair
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The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions…
— Paulo Freire
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our…
— Agnes Repplier
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young…
— Olive Schreiner
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
— Charles Darwin
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
— Jonathan Swift
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