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 patie…

- Stephen Charnock

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

- Stephen Charnock

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

- Stephen Charnock

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

- Stephen Charnock

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

- Stephen Charnock

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

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

- Stephen Charnock

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. Hi…

- Stephen Charnock

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

- Stephen Charnock