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

Stephen Charnock (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Stephen Charnock (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

Stephen Charnock (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)

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 (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)

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

Stephen Charnock (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)

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

Stephen Charnock (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)

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

Stephen Charnock (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)

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 (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)

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 (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)

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 (Clergyman, 1628 – 1680)