Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God.
Quote by John Pearson about god, power
Quotes by John Pearson
15 quotes by John Pearson
John Pearson - british theologian
Life period: 1612 - 1686
Fourthly, I desire you to look not only upon that which you have lost, but also upon that which he hath left behinde him.
Quote by John Pearson about wish
Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted, only Isaac was in the Covenant.
Quote by John Pearson about name
In this the similitude is so great, that there is no difference in the nature of the love produced, and that which did produce it.
Quote by John Pearson about nature, love
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father.
Quote by John Pearson about love, affection, people, nature, man
Love, when in an equal, commandeth love, and this is so just, that fire doth not more naturally create a flame.
Quote by John Pearson about love, fire, fire brigade
Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to move compassion in the living.
Quote by John Pearson about life
Secondly, reflect upon that love and entire affection which you have lost, and could no otherwise be lost, but by losing him, in whom it lived.
Quote by John Pearson about love, affection
The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
Quote by John Pearson about sadness, word, being, time
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
Quote by John Pearson about hope, day, life, man
Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.
Quote by John Pearson about change, death, nothing
Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
Quote by John Pearson about people, vulgarity, nothing, common sense, death, world, life
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
Quote by John Pearson about old, people, nothing, life
What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us.
Quote by John Pearson about reason, sadness, death, man, life
