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

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Christ is hated because sin is loved. —Matthew Henry, on John 3:19

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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary. — Jonathan Edwards

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This world is all the hell that ever a true Christian is to endure, and it is all the heaven that unbelievers shall ever enjoy. —Jonathan Edwards

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Right before the Puritan Thomas Hooker died, a close friend said to him: “You are going to receive the reward for all your labors.” Thomas Hooker responded: “Brother, I am going to receive 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘺.”

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“Christ is hated because sin is loved.” —Matthew Henry (1662-1714), on John 3:19

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Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose. —Richard Sibbes, A Puritan Golden Treasury, Pg. 293

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Study regularly. Set aside time to search for truth, which like gold lies deep and must be excavated. Do not expect the Holy Spirit to transform you miraculously from an ignorant sinner into a learned Christian unless you’re willing to burn some late night oil. —William Gurnall

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What you are in secret is what you really are. —John Owen

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Our cross may be heavy, but one sight of Christ will make us forget all our former sorrows. —Thomas Watson

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What you are in secret is what you really are. —John Owen

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Sin will be burdensome if the Savior is precious to you. —William Williams (1666-1741)

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A dungeon with Christ, is a throne; and a throne without Christ is a hell. —John Owen, Works 8:35

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“There is no little sin, because [there is] 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵.” —Thomas Brooks

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“There is no little sin, because [there is] 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵.” —Thomas Brooks

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Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace. —Thomas Watson

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What lust is so valuable that it is worth burning in hell for? —William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 2:294

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A home without a Bible is a ship without a rudder and a Christian without a Bible is a solider without a weapon. —Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Christian’s Reasonable Service, 1:76

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Sin will be 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 if the Savior is 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 to you. —William Williams

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Christ died for the elect only. —John Owen, Death of Death in the Death of Christ, Pg. 308

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Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose. —Richard Sibbes, A Puritan Golden Treasury, Pg. 293

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Satan is subtle; he will make a man proud of his graces; he will make a man proud that he is not proud. —Thomas Brooks, Works 3:47

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Jesus Christ went more willingly to the cross—than we do to the throne of grace. —Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken by Storm, Pg. 11

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Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet. -Thomas Watson

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We lost a paradise by sin, and have gained a heaven by the cross. —Stephen Charnock, Works 4:503

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If my life is fruitless it doesn’t matter who praises me. And if it’s fruitful it doesn’t matter who criticizes me. —John Bunyan

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Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet. —Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance, 63

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Study regularly. Set aside time to search for truth, which like gold lies deep and must be excavated. Do not expect the Holy Spirit to transform you miraculously from an ignorant sinner into a learned Christian unless you’re willing to burn some late night oil. —William Gurnall

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Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It’s a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it. —Richard Sibbes (1577-1635)

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He that would be saved by Christ, and not ruled by him, shall not be saved by him at all. —John Owen, Works 9:25

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I see the sinfulness of sin, so let me also see the graciousness of grace, and the fullness of Christ. —William Bridge, Piercing Heaven, 28

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A Christian without a Bible is a solider without a weapon. —Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Christian’s Reasonable Service, 1:76

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A little hole in the ship sinks it; a little stab in the heart kills a man; and a little sin, without a great deal of mercy, will damn a man. —Thomas Brooks, Works 1:22

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When thou openest the Bible to read, say ‘Lord, open mine eyes.’ —Thomas Manton, Works 6:170

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It cost David and Peter many sad days and nights for neglecting to watch over their own hearts for only a few minutes. —John Flavel, Keeping the Heart

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Our cross may be heavy, but one sight of Christ will make us forget all our former sorrows. —Thomas Watson

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A praying Christian is a useful Christian in the world. —Jeremiah Burroughs

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Many who spy faults in others see none in themselves. —Thomas Watson

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Go seasonably to bed, that you may not be sleepy on the Lord's Day. —Richard Baxter

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Let me be friendless, let me be childless, let me be poor, let me be any thing, rather than a Christless, graceless, hopeless soul. —John Flavel

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Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; 𝘣𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶. —John Owen, Works 3:9

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God is light, sin is darkness; God is life, sin is death; God is heaven, sin is hell; God is beauty, sin is deformity. —Thomas Brooks

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Be killing sin, or sin will be killing you. —John Owen

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“Where is thy God now?” Answer: In heaven, in earth, in me, everywhere but in the heart of such as ask such questions. —Richard Sibbes, Works 1:136

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True repentance is a turning, not from some sin, but from every sin. —Thomas Brooks, Works 4:193

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A child of God may slip into a sin, as a sheep may slip into the mire, but he does not, nor cannot wallow in sin as the swine does in the mire. —Thomas Brooks

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Begin at once, Christian, to redeem your time. The devil says, ‘tomorrow’, God says ‘today’. Whom will you obey? —William Gurnall

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Your sins may provoke Christ to frown upon you, they may provoke Him to greatly correct you, but they shall never provoke Christ to give you a bill of divorce. —Thomas Brooks, Works 3:70

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May I never be godly only on the sabbath or in thy house, but on every day abroad and at home. —The Valley of Vision, Pg. 117

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Carnal men love the God that they make and hate the God that made them. —Ralph Venning, Canaan’s Flowing, Pg. 21

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Unclean thoughts will not stay where the love of Christ reigns supreme. —William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:197

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Hypocrisy will make a man pray to be seen and heard of men, rather than to be heard of God. —John Bunyan, Works 2:539

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Do not look on temptation with a wandering eye if you do not wish to be taken by it, nor allow your mind to dwell on that which you do not want lodged in your heart. —William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:85

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Pride loves to climb up, not as Zaccheus 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵, but 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯. —William Gurnall, Golden Treasury, 223

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As honey flows naturally from the bee, so does mercy flow naturally from God. — Thomas Brooks, Works 3:37

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No sin can be 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 that is committed against the 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 God. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:54

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Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint’s prayer is put into the bow of Christ’s intercession it pierces the throne of grace. —Thomas Watson

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Jesus Christ went more willingly to the cross—than we do to the throne of grace. —Puritan Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken by Storm, Pg. 11

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He who runs from God in the morning will hardly find him at the close of the day; nor will he who begins with the world and the vanities thereof, in the first place, be very capable of walking with God all the day after. —John Bunyan

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Carnal men measure all things by a carnal interest; and therefore the life of those that live by faith is ridiculous to them. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:456

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What sin is there so sweet and profitable that is worth burning in hell for, or shutting out of heaven for? —Thomas Brooks, Works 3:278

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By all means read the Puritans. They are worth more than all the modern stuff put together. —Charles Spurgeon

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Our sins were imputed to Christ when he died on the cross, and his righteousness is imputed to us when we believe. —William Bridge, Works 5:377

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Continue to practice your devotions habitually ... Do not neglect this and do it to the best of your ability. Read the Word, even if you neither have the least desire to do so. —Wilhelmus à Brakel

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For a woman to destroy the child in the womb is murder. —Puritan Thomas Manton, Works 7:150

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The work of repentance is not the work of an hour, a day, or a year, but the work of a life[time]. —Thomas Brooks, Smooth Stones, 99

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Our sin’s are made Christ’s, and Christ’s righteousness is made ours. —Stephen Charnock, Works 5:441

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The longest life is too short to honour God. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:163

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Beware of the smallest beginnings of temptations. No wise man will neglect the smallest spark of fire, especially if he see it among many barrels of gun-powder. You carry gun-powder about you, O take heed of sparks! —John Flavel, Works 1:292, 293

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It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell. —Richard Sibbes, Bruised Reed, Pg. 31

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If you want to excel in holiness you must study the Bible. —William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 2:200

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When we are full of self, there is no room for grace. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:48

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Nothing can save us from our sins but a crucified Savior. —Puritan Thomas Manton, Works, 11:168

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He that would be saved by Christ, and not ruled by him, shall not be saved by him at all. —John Owen, Works 9:25

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Marriage is to be between one man and one woman. —1646 Westminster Confession of Faith, 24.1

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Grant me never to lose sight of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the exceeding righteousness of salvation, the exceeding glory of Christ, the exceeding beauty of holiness, the exceeding wonder of grace. —The Valley of Vision, Pg. 137

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Search the entire Bible and take note whether Christ has ever refused grace to anyone or sent any away who came to him in truth to be reconciled, sanctified, and saved. —Wilhelmus à Brakel

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Where hatred of sin is, there will be a killing of sin, but if you let it live, you hate not sin. —Thomas Hooker, Self-Denial, Pg. 69

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The believer kills sin, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘮; but the legalist, that God may love him. —Ralph Erskine, Legal & Gospel Mortification

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There is a day appointed, wherein all the men of the world shall know that God knew and took notice of all and every one of their most secret sins. —John Owen, Works 6:361

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Sin is not hated enough, nor God loved enough, and therefore we have so small a taste of the comforts of Christianity. —Thomas Manton, Sermon upon Mark 2:17

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He who hides sin — loves it! —Nathaniel Vincent

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On our sins: “If we do not kill them, they will kill us.” —Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, 6:614

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The more godly any man is, the more merciful that man will be. —Thomas Brooks, Works 3:271

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Thieves do not break into poor cottages, but houses which are filled with treasure. So, in this spiritual war the saints know Satan will always try to break into those hearts which God has filled with his spiritual treasure. —Paul Bayne (1573-1617)

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None will handle poor souls as gently as those who remember the pain of their own experience. —William Gurnall

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“Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.” —John Flavel, Works 1.176

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The word of God is the only cure and relief for a fainting soul. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:275

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Our Saviour was a praying Saviour. He spent whole nights in prayer to God His Father. As He was, so should we be in the world, 1 John 4:17. —Robert Traill, Works 1:83

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None can seek [God] rightly but those that seek him in Christ. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:26

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Avoid unholy friend[ships]; they will ruin the power of godliness. Stop pretending - you cannot be among unholy people very long without defiling your soul, which the Holy Spirit has made pure. —William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, 2:209

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Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst: He promises honor and pays with disgrace. He promises pleasure and pays with pain. He promises profit and pays with loss. He promises life and pays with death. —Thomas Brooks, Works 2:322

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Satan’s device to draw the soul to sin is, to present the bait, and hide the hook. —Thomas Brooks

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We live in times wherein every man’s opinion is his Bible. —Puritan Thomas Watson

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Can there be a greater heartache in this life than to see your own child running full speed toward hell, and know that you were the one who outfitted him for the race? Oh, do your best while they’re young and in your constant care, to win them to God. —William Gurnall

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Go seasonably to bed, that you may not be sleepy on the Lord's Day. —Richard Baxter

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To be under the dominion of sin is the greatest slavery, and to be under the dominion of grace is the greatest liberty. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:326

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Christ is the true treasure hid in the field of the Scriptures. —Puritan Matthew Henry, On Romans 1:2

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