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Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

John Flavel

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John Flavel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1630
Born: January 1
Died: 1691
Died: June 26
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Cleric
Theologian
John Flavell
Johan Flavel
Johannes Flavel
Holiness
Price
Blood
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If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.
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One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
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That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration and all its works are dead works.
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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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Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.
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What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!
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To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.
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As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual life and until he quicken us and infuse the principle of the divine life into our souls, we can put forth no hand, or vital act of faith, to lay hold upon Jesus Christ.
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Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.
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Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.
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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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That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
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All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, the right way to the city of habitation.
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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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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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Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that such an easy religion can save you? If so, we may invert Christ's words and say, 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to life, and may there be that go in there.'
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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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Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes.
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Observed duties maintain our credit but secret duties maintain our life.
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Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.
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