Stephen Charnock Quotes

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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.

Stephen Charnock
All worship is shot wrong that is not directed to, and conducted by, the thoughts of the power of God, whose assistance we need.

Stephen Charnock
Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

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Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion.

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Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

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Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite.

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Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

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Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul.

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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.

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Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

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Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

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Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it.

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Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.

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Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.

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Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

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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.

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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 transgressions. 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.

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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.

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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.

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What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision!

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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.

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This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven.

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God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.

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