"When we believe that we should be satisfied……" — Stephen Charnock
"When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him."
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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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We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.
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