116 Quotes by John Flavel

The Lord’s supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.

God’s unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.

Christ’s resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

Two things destroy the peace and tranquility of our lives; our bewailing past disappointments, or fearing future ones.

There is not a greater discovery of pride in the world than in the contests of our wills with the will of God.

If we were to understand how dear we are to God, our relation to Him, our value in His eyes, and how He protects us by His faithful promises and gracious presence, we would not tremble at every appearance of danger.

The heart of man is his worst part before it be regenerate, and the best afterwards: it is the seat of principles, and fountain of actions. The eye of God is, and the eye of a Christian ought to be, principally fixed upon it. The greatest difficulty in conversion, is, to win the heart to God; and the greatest difficulty after conversion, is, to keep the heart with God.

It is my ignorance of God’s design that makes me quarrel with him.

A bad heart and a slippery memory deprive men of the comfort of many mercies, and defraud God of the glory due for them.