Pithy gems from John Flavel!   LISTEN to Audio!

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The soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds!

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Whatever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it. So that we find the readiest course to be rid of our comforts, is to set our hearts inordinately upon them!

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Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves!

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Those who know God, will be humble.
Those who know themselves, cannot be proud.

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Affliction is a bitter pill, which, being wrapped up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed. But discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

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When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.

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

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The Christian shall gain that which he cannot lose, by parting with that which he cannot keep.
     
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Jesus is the fountain, ocean, and center of all delights and joys!

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Out of Christ's condemnation, flows our justification.
Out of His agony, comes our victory.
Out of His pain, comes our ease.
Out of His stripes, comes our healing.
Out of His gall and vinegar, comes our honey.
Out of His curse, comes our blessing.
Out of His crown of thorns, comes our crown of glory.
Out of His death, comes our life.
O what a melting consideration is this!

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Christ is not sweet, until sin is made bitter to us!

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If God should damn you to all eternity, your eternal sufferings could not satisfy for the evil that is in one vain thought! O the depth of the evil of sin!