Stephen Charnock quotes

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty! (Stephen Charnock)
Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen. View quote
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We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity. View quote
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Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion. View quote
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It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all. View quote
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When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him. View quote
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Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love. View quote
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God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence. View quote
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A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant. View quote
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Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little. View quote
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Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else. (Stephen Charnock)
A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil. View quote
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Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good. View quote
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God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient. View quote
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How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our souls. View quote
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The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God. View quote
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How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new. View quote
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Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving. View quote
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Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them. View quote
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Frequently renew settled and holy resolutions. A soldier unresolved to fight may be easily defeated...The weakness of our graces, the strength of our temptations, and the diligence of our spiritual enemies, require strong resolutions. View quote
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It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us. (Stephen Charnock)
Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world. View quote
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Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it. View quote
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Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them. View quote
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All worship is shot wrong that is not directed to, and conducted by, the thoughts of the power of God, whose assistance we need. View quote
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