Stephen Charnock Quotes

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

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.

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!

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

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

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.

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

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

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

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

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

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

How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our souls.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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