Christ’s worst is better than the world’s best.

Moses counted ‘the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt.’

—Thomas Manton, Works 7:269

The good of our condition is not to be determined by the interest of the flesh, but the welfare of our souls.

—Puritan Thomas Manton, Works 7:254

He needs never be idle that hath so much business to do with his own soul.

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A child of God findeth a greater treasure in one chapter of the Bible than worldly men in all their lands and honours and large revenues.

—Puritan Thomas Manton, Works 7:265-66

So perverse are we by nature, that we are worse often times by prosperity: ‘Before I was afflicted I went astray’.

—David Dickson, Geneva Series of Commentaries: Psalms, 368

If we are made more godly, wise, religious, it is a good [use of affliction]; but if it leave us as careless and stupid, or no better than we were before, that affliction is but a preparation to another.

—Thomas Manton, Works 7:259

Idleness is the devil's bath; a slothful person becomes a prey to every temptation.
- Thomas Watson

It is on the waters of the sanctuary that the saint saileth safely through the sea of this world to the port of salvation.

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O Lord of grace,

My soul is often a chariot without wheels,
clogged and hindered in sin's miry clay;
Mount it on eagle's wings
and cause it to soar upward to thyself.

—Valley of Vision, Pg. 165

Forgiveness makes not a Christian bold with sin, but fearful of sin, and careful to obey, as Christians find in their daily experience.

—Thomas Brooks, Works 5:63

𝘖𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: But I have often relapsed and fallen into the same sin again and again.

𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳: If Christ will have us pardon our brother seventy-seven times, can we think he will press us [to do] more than He will be ready to do Himself?

—Richard Sibbes, Works 1:231

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“It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I may learn Your statutes.”
—Psalms 119:71 NKJV

Thomas Manton: “If God write his law upon our hearts by his stripes on our backs, so light a trouble should not be grudged at.”

—The Works of Thomas Manton, 7:257

If you believe the doctrines of the Word, how is it that you are so unconcerned about the state of your souls before the Lord?

— Puritan Thomas Boston

The church is like a river. If it gets wider instead of deeper it will lose its power.

—Puritan Thomas Manton

…while the Law promises eternal life to each and every man on the condition of one’s own perfect righteousness, the gospel does so on the condition of an alien righteousness, namely of Christ, and applied through faith.

—Synopsis of a Purer Theology, 1:245

Therefore, as [the Trinity] cannot be explained by human reason, the mode of this mystery should be adored in humble faith, rather than be defined by risky statements.

—Synopsis of a Purer Theology, Disputation 7: On the Holy Trinity, 1:71

Such as these, how innocent soever they may think themselves, are to be counted Sabbath-breakers, who, instead of keeping the Sabbath, lose it, and throw it away, and willfully suffer it to run waste.

—Matthew Henry, Complete Works, 1:119