“No vessel can be made of gold without fire; so it is impossible that we should be made vessels of honor, unless we are melted and refined in the furnace of affliction.”
Thomas Watson
Category: Quotes
Exercise
“We are cold when it comes to rejoicing in God! Hence, we need to exercise ourselves in it and employ all our senses in it – our feet, our hands, our arms and all the rest – that they all might serve in the worship of God and so magnify Him.”
John Calvin
A Good Christian
“A good Christian is not a grave to bury God’s mercies, but a temple to sing his praises.”
Thomas Watson
Bearers
“There are no crown-bearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below.”
Charles Spurgeon
Beware
“Beware of those who say there is no hell and declare new ways to heaven.”
Charles Spurgeon
Affections
“And the duty of singing praises to God seems to be appointed wholly to excite and express religious affections. No other reason can be assigned why we should express ourselves to God in verse rather than in prose, and do it with music, but only that such is our nature and frame that these things have a tendency to move our affections.”
Jonathan Edwards
Christ’s Glory
“On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead, putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.”
John Owen
Infinitely High
“God is so infinitely high and lofty, so inhabits eternity in his own eternal being, that it is an act of mere grace in him to take notice of things infinitely below him.”
John Owen