John Flavel: Quotes about God

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“When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.”

John Flavel

The Mystery of Providence

God , Evil

“They that know God will be humble,
They that know themselves cannot be proud.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 329.

God

“God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 7.

God

“They foresaw that the concession of a Providence would impose an eternal yoke upon their necks, by making them accountable for all they did to a higher tribunal, so that they must necessarily 'pass the time of their sojourning here in fear', while all their thoughts, words and ways were strictly noted and recorded, for the purpose of an account by an all-seeing and righteous God. They therefore laboured to persuade themselves that what they had no mind for did not exist.”

John Flavel

The Mystery of Providence

God , Fear , Way , Time

“Two things a master commits to his servant's care — the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, "Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost." Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. "Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little. care and thought about it."”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 560.

God , Soul , Clothes

“The greatest difficulty in conversion is to win the heart to God and after conversion to keep it with Him.”

John Flavel

A Saint Indeed

God , Heart

“When a man begins to apprehend the first approach of grace, pardon, and mercy by Jesus Christ to his soul; when he is convinced of his utter unworthiness and desert of hell, and can never expect any thing from a just and holy God but damnation, how do the first dawnings of mercy melt and humble him!”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 85.

God , Soul , Hell , Christ