John Flavel Quotes

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

Meditate on the Word in the Word.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Thank God for the journey.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.

Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.

In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.