"It is the black work of an ungodly……" — Stephen Charnock
"It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us."
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Stephen Charnock
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30 Quotes by Stephen Charnock
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It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes…
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped…
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No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the…
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Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.
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Frequently renew settled and holy resolutions. A soldier unresolved to fight may be easily defeated...The weakness of our graces, the…
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Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.
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A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.
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This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven.
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Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that…
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Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.
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We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.
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God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the…
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