“Reproaches are but splinters of the cross. How will he endure the stake, who cannot bear a scoff?”

Thomas Watson

“He who fears God considers how vain the world is, and therefore dares not love it; how short time is, therefore dares not lose it; how precious salvation is, and therefore dares not neglect it.”

Thomas Watson

In this be confident, if your provision is spent, either fresh supplies are coming, though you see not whence, or you are nearer to your journey’s end than you reckon yourself to be.

John Flavel

“It is a pity that our tears on account of our troubles should so blind our eyes that we should not see our mercies.”

John Flavel

“He, indeed, is rich in grace whose graces are not hindered by his riches.”

John Flavel

“God has appointed to every one his task, fight, trial, and work; and till that is done we are in a sort immortal.”

Thomas Boston

“His [Christ] humiliation was the price of your exaltation, and his exaltation a testimony of the acceptance of its payment to the full. There is no humbling circumstances ye are in, but ye would have perished in them, had not he purchased your lifting up out of them by his own humiliation.”

Thomas Boston