Frasi di John Flavel

John Flavel è stato un religioso britannico, ministro di culto puritano presbiteriano.

✵ 1627 – 26. Giugno 1691
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John Flavel: Frasi in inglese

“They that know God will be humble,
They that know themselves cannot be proud.”

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 329.

“Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.”

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 559.

“How much better it is to see men live exactly than to hear them argue with subtlety!”

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 315.

“There are three acts of faith, assent, acceptance, and assurance.”

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 226.

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

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 375.

“Unbelief makes a man guilty of the vilest contempt of Christ, and the whole design of redemption by Him.”

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 607.

“Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.”

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.

“Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.”

Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 280.

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