John Flavel Quotes

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• He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him.

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  Healing, Water, Soul

  John Flavel (1770). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...”, p.322

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• Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

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  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  John Flavel (1836). “The Fountain of Life Opened; Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory. 1671”, p.351

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• If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

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  Love, Family, Weed

  John Flavel (1840). “Divine Conduct: Or, The Mystery of Providence, Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence are Asserted and Vindicated ... and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Pointed Out”, p.58

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• As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

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  God, Religious, Firsts

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• The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

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  God, Christian, Strong

  John Flavel (1770). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...”, p.4

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• No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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  Religious, Jesus, Christian Inspirational

  John Flavel (2014). “Fountain of Life: 1671”

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• They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

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  Christian, Humble, Proud

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.399, Hartland Publications

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• Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .

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  Ocean, Essence, Rivers

  John Flavel (1699). “The Method of Grace in Bringing Home the Eternal Redemption ... Being the Second Part of Gospel Redemption: Wherein the Great Mystery of Our Union and Communion with Christ is Opened and Applied ...”, p.238

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• One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

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  Men, Soul, Thousand

  John Flavel (1677). “Divine Conduct and Saint Indeed”, p.134

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• The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

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  Life, Bible, Christian

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• The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

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  Hebrew, Providence, Backwards

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• He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

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  Suffering, Sorrow, Needs

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• Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

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  Soul, Suffering, Affliction

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• If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb. 13:5). Providence has ordered that condition for you which is really best for your eternal good. If you had more of the world than you have, your heads and hearts might not be able to manage it to your advantage.

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  Christian, Heart, Godly

  John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.90, Lulu.com

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• The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

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  Christian, Jesus, Law

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.264, Hartland Publications

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• As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until he quicken us and infuse the principle of the divine life into our souls, we can put forth no hand, or vital act of faith, to lay hold upon Jesus Christ.

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Blood

  John Flavel (1701). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes”, p.279

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• Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

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  Heaven, Sin, Speak

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• We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.

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  Believe, Yield, Blood

  John Flavel (1740). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ... To which are added, alphabetical tables of the texts of Scripture explained; and indexes of principal matters contained in the whole”, p.276

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• Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

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  Should, Distress

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• Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.

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  Christian, Revenge, Heart

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• Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be left speechless then. God forbid that you that have heard so much of Christ, and you that have professed so much of Christ, should at last fall into a worse condition than those that never heard the name of Christ.

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  Fall, Names, Looks

  "THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP".

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• The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be unfolded in one age, and something in another, yet eternity itself cannot full unfold him.

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  God, Christian, Religious

  John Flavel (1671). “The Fountain of Life Opened, Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory: Containing 42 Sermons on Various Texts ...”, p.13

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• To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

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  Christian, Humble, Men

  John Flavel (1801). “A Treatise on the Keeping of the Heart”, p.38

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• Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

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  May, Be Confident, Providence

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.54, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.

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  Jesus, Water, Heaven

  John Flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2015). “THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP”, p.161, Lulu.com

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