Thomas Watson
When we oppose sin out of love to God, and because it strikes at his holiness.
The power that love stirreth up is a greater power than what wrath stirreth up in God.
Whatever a soul can desire is found in Christ.
Fire is quenched by pouring on water or withdrawing fuel; so the Spirit is quenched by living in sin, which is like pouring on water; or not improving our gifts and grace, which is like withdrawing the fuel. —Thomas Manton Works, 9:491.
It is but a false pretence of love to God that any man hath who liveth in any known sin. Where God is not loved above all, he is not loved at all; and he is not so where men will not part with one cursed […]
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