John Flavel — On Keeping the Heart

God values no man by outward excellencies, but by inward graces.

Take away the knowledge of Christ, and a Christian is the most sad and melancholy creature in the world: again, let Christ but manifest himself, and dart the beams of his light into their souls, it will make them kiss th…

We are as able to stop the sun in its course, or make the rivers run backward, as by our own skill and power to rule and order our hearts.

Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

The heart is the treasury, the hand and tongue but the shops: what is in these, comes from thence.

And, indeed, it were not worth while to live in a world devoid of God and providence.