A strange plant needs more care than a native of the soil. Worldly desires, like a weed, breed of their own accord, but spiritual desires need a great deal of cultivating. —Thomas Manton Adapted from The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, 6:432.
The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love: he who loves mean and sordid things does thereby become base and vile. But a noble and well-placed affection does advance and improve the spirit unto a conformity with […]
The ship that leaks is more easily emptied at the beginning than afterwards; the bird is easily killed in the egg, but when once hatched and fledged, we may kill it when we can catch it. A frequent reckoning with ourselves will pluck sin up before […]
“When the thread of the gospel is too fine spun, it will not clothe a naked soul.” Nice distinctions and technical phrases may hide the fulness of the word of God, and the simple truth may be treated in such a philosophical manner that its strength […]
A Christian must keep a watch and guard against envy and malice, or any bitterness of spirit These things are the very reverse of that great and distinguishing thing in Christianity—the very essence of Christianity. It behooves Christians, as they would not by their practice directly […]