Quotes from John Flavel

What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

Let all Arminians know: we have as high an esteem for faith as any men in the world, but yet we will not rob Christ to clothe faith.

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own, but the arm of the Lord is revealed therein.

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.

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

Christian, thou knowest thou carriest Gunpowder about thee, desire those that carry Fire to keep at a Distance from thee; 'tis a dangerous Crisis when a proud Heart meets with flattering Lips.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ.