"We often learn more of God under the……" — Stephen Charnock
"We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us."
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30 Quotes by Stephen Charnock
Stephen Charnock has 30 quotes on this site.
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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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It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts.…
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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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God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the…
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More Comfort Quotes
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one of 2,510 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
— Jane Austen
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is…
— Teresa of Avila
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day…
— Joseph Addison
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and…
— Adele
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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