John Flavel Quotes

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Christ is the only way into Heaven. The world may say otherwise, but what they are really doing is making rules for someone else's house.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

Mi fe no descansa en lo que soy, o lo que seré, o como me siento, o lo que sé, sino en lo que Cristo és, en lo que él ha hecho, y en lo que él está haciendo en mí - My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.