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John Flavel Quotes: It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.
         

It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.


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



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The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.



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The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.



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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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As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.



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Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.



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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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To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.



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Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.





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