John Flavel Quotes

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

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

We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.

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

When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.