Stephen Charnock Quotes

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  Faith, God, Christian

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  Happiness, Death, Christian

  "Christ Our Passover".

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• 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

  Eye, Hands, Delight

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• We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

  Stephen Charnock

  Comfort, Staff, Strikes

  Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.678

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

  Stephen Charnock

  Ignorance, Littles, Estimation

  Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.666

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  Heart, Secret, Caverns

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• In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not Christian patience. But to humbly submit because it is the will of God to inflict the trial, to be silent because the sovereignty of God orders it - is true godly patience.

  Stephen Charnock

  Christian, Godly, Order

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• A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

  Stephen Charnock

  Men, Knowing, Ignorant

  Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.653

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• Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

  Stephen Charnock

  Pride, Self, Contending

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

  Stephen Charnock

  Self, World, Anti God

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

  Stephen Charnock

  Heart, Good Heart

  Stephen Charnock (2000). “A Discourse of the Nature of Regeneration”, p.475, Library of Alexandria

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

  Stephen Charnock

  Religious, Nature, Son

  Stephen Charnock (1840). “The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock”, p.102

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• A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

  Stephen Charnock

  Humble, Devil, Proud

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• Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

  Stephen Charnock

  Heart, Hypocrite, Play

  "The Existence and Attributes of God".

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  Littles, Moments, Eternity

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.287, Ravenio Books

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

  Stephen Charnock

  Eternal

  Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.308

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• Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.

  Stephen Charnock

  Roots, Fruit, Assurance

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• Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.

  Stephen Charnock

  Heart, Play, Worship

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  Perfection, May, Worship

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

  Stephen Charnock

  Jesus, Taken, Lips

  Stephen Charnock (2000). “Christ Our Passover”, p.280, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  God, Father, World

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• How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.

  Stephen Charnock

  Benefits, Remember, Worthy

  Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.277

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

  Stephen Charnock

  Spiritual, Spiritual Change, Regeneration

  Stephen Charnock (1840). “The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock”, p.98

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  Spiritual, Heart, Light

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.153, Ravenio Books

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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

  Atheist, Men, Thinking

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