(Heb.

11:4)

Francis Quarles
Died
8th September 1644

 Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

 Flatter not yourself in your faith in God if you have not charity
for your neighbor.

 The world's an Inn; and I her guest.

 If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud
heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself.

 In having all things, and not Thee, what have I?

Not having Thee, what have my labors got?
Let me enjoy but Thee, what farther crave I?
And having Thee alone, what have I not?

 He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not

promised life till we repent.

 The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you
were.
 Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

 No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he

lives to none.

 Obedience to truth known is the king's highway to that which is

still beyond us.

 Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed

mouth.

 That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for
an end.

 The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought

illustrates the walls of your chamber.

 Beware of drunkenness. Where drunkenness reigns, there reason

is an exile, virtue a stranger, and God an enemy; blasphemy is
wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are proclamations.

 No cross no crown.

 No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is

the mark we aim at.

 Has fortune dealt you some bad cards? Then let wisdom make
you a good gamester.

 Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation.

and honor the reward of action.

 It is the lot of man but once to die.

 If your faith has no doubts, you have just cause to doubt your
faith; and if your doubts have no hope, you have just reason to
fear despair; when therefore your doubts shall exercise your
faith, keep your hopes firm to qualify your doubts; so shall your
faith be secured from doubts; so shall your doubts be preserved
from despair.

 Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly
thyself. If you find anything questionable there, use the
commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet
lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in
deceitful sweetness.

 Let the ground of all your religious actions be obedience; examine

not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is
commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor
questions.

 Time is a bubble; 'tis a sigh;

Be prepared, O man, to die.

 God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make

Him so in the little world; make Him thy evening epilogue and
thy morning prologue; practice to make Him your last thought at
night when you sleep, and your first thought in the morning
when you awake; so shall your fancy be sanctified in the night,
and your understanding rectified in the day; so shall your rest be
peaceful, your labors prosperous, your life pious, and your death
glorious.

‘Friend, remember that it is better to read 1 quote 10 times

(meditatively) than to read 10 quotes 1 time (superficially).’

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