There are two things that unbelief stumbles at in God: His power and His willingness to help.
– John Flavel –
from The Mystery of Providence, 1678
John Flavel
Scripture Teaches Us – John Flavel
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
– John Flavel –
God’s Timing is Perfect – John Flavel
God’s timing is always precise, certain, and punctual, but the Lord doth not compute and reckon his seasons of working by our arithmetic.
– John Flavel –
1627–1691
Woo and Win Souls to Christ – John Flavel
It is our calling, as the Bridegrooms Friends, to woo and win souls to Christ, to set him forth to the people as crucified among them (Gal 3:1), to present him in all his attractive excellencies, that all hearts may be ravished with his beauty, and charmed into his arms by love.
– John Flavel –
1630-1691
Fearfully and Wonderfully – John Flavel
Fearfully and wonderfully … am I made, and designed for nobler ends and uses than for a few days to eat, and drink, and sleep, and talk, and die. My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.
– John Flavel –
(1627–1691)
see Scriptures: Psalm 139:14; Matthew 10:31; Luke 12:7
Don’t Give Up on the Church – John Flavel
O be not too quick to bury the church before she is dead! Stay till Christ has tried his skill before you give it up for lost.
– John Flavel –
1627-1691
The Joy of Trials and Struggles – John Flavel
Have we not with joy observed how those very things that sense and reason tell us are opposite to our happiness have been the most blessed instruments to promote it! How has God blessed crosses to mortify corruption, wants to kill our wantonness, disappointments to wean us from the world! O we little think how comfortable those things will be in the review, which are so burdensome to present sense!
– John Flavel –
from The Mystery of Providence, 1678
He is Ever Doing You Good – John Flavel
He is ever doing you good; be you always abounding in his work. His providence stands by you in your greatest distresses and dangers; do not then flinch from God when His service and your duty is compassed about with difficulties. O be active for that God who every moment is active for you
– John Flavel –
from The Mystery of Providence, 1678
A Hot Iron – John Flavel
A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.
– John Flavel –