John Flavel Quotes

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.

Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ.

I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

I stand behind these words: I'm a Christian, but I'm not perfect.

I'm not ashamed of the Gospel.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

I've got Jesus in my heart. I'm glad to be alive.

We all sin. We all can change. We all can be reborn in Christ.

Everyone who believes in Jesus Christ will be saved. That is true.

Christ is my life.

Christianity is the truth about everything. If you say you have a Christian worldview, that means you see the world through that lens - not just how people get saved and what to stay away from.

I live my life and make mistakes and sin every single day... but that's what grace is for.

I'm the dirtiest of the dirty. I mess up all the time. I suck as a Christian. I can't stand religion. But I love Jesus, and I'm trying.