Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul. - John Flavel

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There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd. "

John Flavel

Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

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No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

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He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him.

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The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be unfolded in one age, and something in another, yet eternity itself cannot full unfold him.

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Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .

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