John Flavel Quotes

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Salvation is by repentance and faith, and if you have truly believed unto salvation, you have been regenerated, which means you have become a new creature, and you are going to live a different life. And so works do not result in salvation.

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

To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.

The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.

There is no way of salvation except through the cross of Christ.

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

On the cross, Jesus won the right for believers to be born again back into the god-class. Adam was created, not subordinate to God, but as a god; he lost it, and in Christ we are taken back to the god-class.

Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you already have the Holy Spirit living within you.

When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.

I would that ye should come unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him, and continue in fasting and praying, and endure to the end; and as the Lord liveth ye will be saved.

In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the air which circulates around the globe. All who chose to breathe this life-giving atmosphere will live and grow up to the stature of men and women in Christ Jesus.

When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ's rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death.

In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect.

Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.