40 Quotes by Stephen Charnock

The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion.

God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.

It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us.