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John Flavel Inspirational Quotes (59)

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Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.
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The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.
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Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .
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Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
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Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues.
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When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.
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Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul He is the very Sabbath of the soul.
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The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
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No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
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A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.
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