“A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.”
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Famous Stephen Charnock Quotes
“Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.”
“Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion.”
Source: The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock
Source: The Existence and Attributes of God
“How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.”
Source: Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir
Source: The complete works of Stephen Charnock, B.D.
Source: The Existence and Attributes of God
“Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir
Source: The Existence and Attributes of God
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir
“Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.”
Source: Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God
“Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.”
“A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir
“This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven.”
Source: Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God
Source: Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God
“Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.”
Source: A Discourse of the Nature of Regeneration
“We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir
Source: The Choice Works of the Rev. Stephen Charnock, B.D.: With His Life and Character
Source: The complete works of Stephen Charnock, B.D.
Source: The Existence and Attributes of God
Source: The Existence and Attributes of God
“Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.”
“Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.”
Source: The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock
Source: Christ Our Passover
“Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world”
Source: The Existence and Attributes of God
“Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir