Inspirational Quotes by Stephen Charnock
“Providence would seem to sleep unless faith and prayer awaken it. The disciples had but little faith in their Master's accounts, yet that little faith awakened him in a storm, and he relieved them. Unbelief doth only discourage God from showing his power in taking our parts.”
“The Devil accuses us when we fall, but he has not so much on his side as we have.”
topics: Satan
“Satan has no merit of his own to enter as plea for vengeance.”
topics: Satan
“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.”
“Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.”
topics: Selfishness
“To pretend to homage to God, and intend only the advantage of self, is rather to mock Him than worship Him.”
topics: Selfishness
“When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.”
topics: Selfishness
“Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.”
“Without the heart it is not worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really a hypocrite. We may truly be said to worship God-though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.”
“A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.”
“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!”
“We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.”
topics: Worship
“This boundless desire had not its original from man itself; nothing would render itself restless; something above the bounds of this world implanted those desires after a higher good, and made him restless in everything else. And since the soul can only rest is something infinite, there is something infinite for it to rest in.”
“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.”
topics: God
“Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them.”
“Without faith we are not fit to desire mercy, without humility we are not fit to receive it, without affection we are not fit to value it, without sincerity we are not fit to improve it. Times of extremity contribute to the growth and exercise of these qualifications.”
“We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.”
topics: Discipline
“Now what greater comfort is there than this, that there is one presides in the world who is so wise he cannot be mistaken, so faithful he cannot deceive, so pitiful he cannot neglect his people, and so powerful that he can make stones even to be turned into bread if he please!”
topics: Comfort
“Those that deny the providence of God, do in effect deny the being of God; for they strip him of that wisdom, goodness, tenderness, mercy, justice, righteousness, which are the glory of the Deity.”
“It is a great folly to deny or doubt of the existence or being of God: or, an atheist is a great fool.”
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Puritan divine, Stephen Charnock was an English Puritan Presbyterian clergyman born at the St Katherine Cree parish of London. Charnock studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, during which he was converted to the Christian faith, beginning his spiritual journey as a Puritan divine.
He moved to Ireland in 1656 where he became a chaplain to Henry Cromwell, governor of Ireland. In Dublin, he began a regular ministry of preaching to other believers. Those who came to hear him were from different classes of society and differing denominations, and he became widely known for the skill by which he discharged his duties.