John Flavel — A Saint Indeed (On Keeping the Heart)

All the comforts of believers are streams from this fountain. Jesus Christ is the very object matter of a believer's joy.

Eudoxus was so affected with the glory of the sun, that he thought he was born only to behold it; much more should a Christian judge himself born only to behold and delight in the glory of the Lord Jesus.

He is a sea of sweetness without one drop of gall.

To be above the stroke of passion, is a condition equal to angels: to be in a state of sorrow without the sense of sorrow, is a disposition beneath beasts: but duly to regulate our sorrows, and bound our passions under t…

There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable than unbelief. Faith is the saving grace, and unbelief the damning sin.

Husband and wife are not so dear, soul and body are not so near, as Christ and the believing soul are near to each other.