John Flavel Quotes

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.

I believe God will make a way.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

There is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

I am unacquainted with [God’s] designs but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than his justice.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

He that sowes trusts in God.

Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.

God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.

There’s no such thing as trust unless you have unanswered questions in your life. If you know everything, theres nothing to trust God for.

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.

We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

There is nothing God doesn't know about your life. You may know the past and present, but God also knows the future. Choose today to walk securely - not in what you know, but in what you believe.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

God's hand never slips.

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

Don't plan with what is in your pocket; plan with what is in God's pocket

I know in the Christian church the old ladies use to say "what the devil meant for bad God meant for good." So some of the things that I think they went out and tried to be detrimental to my life saved me in a lot of ways.

If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.