40 Quotes by Stephen Charnock

Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.

Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.

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.

Power is God’s hand or arm, omniscience is God’s eye, mercy is God’s delight, eternity is God’s duration, but holiness is God’s beauty!

Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.