Consult the honor of religion more, and your personal safety less. Is it for the honor of religion (think you) that Christians should be as timorous … - John Flavel

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

When a man begins to apprehend the first approach of grace, pardon, and mercy by Jesus Christ to his soul; when he is convinced of his utter unworthiness and desert of hell, and can never expect any thing from a just and holy God but damnation, how do the first dawnings of mercy melt and humble him!

The soul that rightly receives Christ is in a longing condition; never did the hart pant for the water brooks, never did the hireling desire the shadow, never did a condemned person long for a pardon more than the soul longs for Christ.