"A Treatise on Keeping the Heart by John Flavel"

“Alas! that Christians should stand at the door of eternity having more work upon their hands than their time is sufficient for, and yet be filling their heads and hearts with trifles.”

“The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.”

“There are three acts of faith, assent, acceptance, and assurance.”

“It is easier to declaim like an orator against a thousand sins in others than to mortify one sin in ourselves; to be more industrious in our pulpits than in our closets; to preach twenty sermons to our people than one to our own hearts.”

“Christ imparts to all believers all the spiritual blessings that He is filled with, and withholds none from any that have union with Him, be these blessings never so great, or they that receive them never so weak and contemptible in outward respects. .”

“Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.”