Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.

Thomas Boston (Theologian, 1676 – 1732)

Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men’s lusts, but cannot change their hearts.

Thomas Boston (Theologian, 1676 – 1732)

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

Thomas Boston (Theologian, 1676 – 1732)

Believing, repenting, and the like, are the product of the new nature; and can never be produced by the old corrupt nature… as the child cannot be active in his own generation, so a man cannot be active in his own regeneration. The heart is shut against Christ: man cannot open it, only God can do it by his grace.

Thomas Boston (Theologian, 1676 – 1732)

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.

Thomas Boston (Theologian, 1676 – 1732)

Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to ascribe what we meet with either to good or ill luck and fortune. There are many events in the world which men look upon as mere accidents, yet all these come by the counsel and appointment of Heaven.

Thomas Boston (Theologian, 1676 – 1732)

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.

Thomas Boston (Theologian, 1676 – 1732)

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

Thomas Boston (Theologian, 1676 – 1732)

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God.

J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

J.I. Packer (Theologian, 1926 – Current)