Quotes By Puritans And Famous Calvinists

We Hope You Enjoy These Gems Of Wisdom From Great Men Of God.

 

 

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“Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.” – Charles Spurgeon

 

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“If by excessive labor, we die before reaching the average age of man, worn out in the Master’s service, then glory be to God, we shall have so much less of earth and so much more of heaven!” – Charles Spurgeon

 

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“If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.” – Charles Spurgeon

 

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“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.” – Charles Spurgeon

 

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“It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout “well done” to a Christian man.” – Charles Spurgeon

 

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“In one thousand trials it is not five hundred of them that work for the believer’s good, but nine hundred and ninety-nine of them, and one beside.” – George Mueller

 

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“Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.” – John Bunyan

 

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“In Christ His face shines, full of grace and gentleness, even upon us poor and unworthy sinners.” – John Calvin

 

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“The pastor ought to have two voices; One for gathering the sheep; and another for driving away wolves.” – John Calvin

 

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“It is requisite that God should put His hand under us, or else our falls would be deadly.” – John Calvin

 

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“Except one is guided by the Spirit of God, he cannot pray from the heart.” – John Calvin

 

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“If we do not perceive our wretchedness and poverty, we will never know how desirable is that remedy that Christ has brought to us.” – John Calvin

 

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“The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.” – John Calvin

 

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“The tongue exists to reveal our hearts.” – John Calvin

 

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“Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.” – John Calvin

 

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“Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.” – John Calvin

 

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“True peace will be found nowhere but in Christ.” – John Calvin

 

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“Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God.” – John Calvin

 

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“When God wants to judge a nation He gives them wicked rulers.” – John Calvin

 

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“Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.” – John Calvin

 

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“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s Truth was attacked and yet would remain silent.” – John Calvin

 

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“Surely if it draws your heart nearer to God and mortifies it more to this vain world, it is a rod in the hand of special love.” – John Flavel

 

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“Look to it my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before Him. Those that continue Christless now, will be left speechless then. God forbid that you that have heard so much of Christ, and you that have professed so much of Christ, should at last fall l into a worse condition than those that never heard the name of Christ.” – John Flavel

 

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“By entertaining of strange persons, men sometimes entertain angels unawares: But by entering of strange doctrines, many have entertained devils unaware.” – John Flavel

 

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“Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others than to mortify one sin in ourselves.” – John Flavel

 

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“I have reason to praise Him for my trials, for most probably, I should have been ruined without them.” – John Newton

 

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“Love for Christ because he went to the cross, and hate for sin that sent him there, is a solid foundation for true spiritual mortification.” – John Owen

 

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“The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.” – John Owen

 

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“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.” – Martin Luther

 

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“God alone can fill every corner of the soul of a man.” – Richard Sibbes

 

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“If there was anything of man’s bringing, which was not of God’s bestowing, though it were never so small, it would overturn the nature of grace, and make that of works which is of grace.” – Samuel Bolton

 

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“When you see that men have been wounded by the law, then it is time to pour in the gospel oil.” – Samuel Bolton

 

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“There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.” – Samuel Rutherford

 

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“The heaviest end of the cross is laid upon our strong Savior.” – Samuel Rutherford

 

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“No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only Lord Jesus.” – Samuel Rutherford

 

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“Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven’s door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.” – Samuel Rutherford

 

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“The joy of a believer is in God, and on account of God their joy is God Himself, who Himself is the God of Peace, and of joy, and of all consolation.” – Thomas Goodwin

 

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“In Christ are treasures that will require digging to the end of the world.” – Thomas Goodwin

 

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“Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God’s will.” – Thomas Watson

 

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“Discontent is an ungrateful sin, because we have more mercies than afflictions: and it is an irrational sin, because afflictions work for good.” – Thomas Watson

 

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“God never promised us a charter of exemption from trouble, but he has promised to be with us in trouble.” – Thomas Watson

 

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“God is the sweetest friend, but the worst enemy.” – Thomas Watson

 

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“Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.” – Thomas Watson

 

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“Be happy in Him, O my heart, and in nothing but God.” – The Valley Of Vision

 

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“Oh holy God, make me such a creature as thou canst take pleasure in, and such a being that I can take pleasure in thee.” – The Valley Of Vision

 

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“The Christian’s armor will rust except it be furbished with the oil of prayer.” – William Gurnall

 

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