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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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• Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.

  Stephen Charnock

  Morning, Meditation, Heaven

  Stephen Charnock (1866). “The complete works of Stephen Charnock, B.D.”, p.307

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  Art, Knowledge Of God, Mass

  Stephen Charnock, Edward Parsons (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.13

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

  Stephen Charnock

  Blessed, Lust, World

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.62, Ravenio Books

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• In natures, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture; in the law, as the sun in a cloud; in Christ we see Him in His beams; He being 'the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person.

  Stephen Charnock

  Clouds, Law, Brightness

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  Spiritual, Strong, Fighting

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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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• All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.

  Stephen Charnock

  Prayer, Together, Scripture

  Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.529

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

  Stephen Charnock

  Pride, Firsts, Sin

  Stephen Charnock, Edward Parsons (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.340

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

  Stephen Charnock

  Views, Heaven, Earth

  Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.66

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  Men, Made, All Things

  Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.59

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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!

  Stephen Charnock

  Eye, Vision, Receiving

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.35, Ravenio Books

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  Christian, Color, Portraiture

  Stephen Charnock, William Symington (1847). “The Choice Works of the Rev. Stephen Charnock, B.D.: With His Life and Character”, p.24

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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.

  Stephen Charnock

  Needs, Worship, Shots

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• No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.

  Stephen Charnock

  Men, Grace, Conquer

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