40 Quotes by Stephen Charnock

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.

All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.

How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.

It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them.

Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.

Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it.