(5 quotes found)
“When the corn is nearly ripe it bows the head and stoops lower than when it was green. When the people of God are near ripe for heaven, they grow more humble and self-denying...Paul had one foot in heaven when he called himself the chiefest of all sinners and least of saints.”
John Flavel
“By entertaining of strange persons, men sometimes entertain angels unawares: but by entertaining of strange doctrines, many have entertained devils unaware”
“The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying”
“Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves”
“Man's extremity is God's opportunity.”
