Thomas Boston

“Afflictions are God's furnace, in which He tries His people, that they may be made partakers of His holiness.”

“Holiness is the symmetry of the soul.”

“The world is a great sea, and we are all mariners.”

“The law is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.”

“Prayer is the breath of the new man, sucking in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises.”

“God is the treasure, and the gospel is a key to unlock that treasure.”

“A believer's life is a medley of opposites; he is sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich.”

“The fountain of all our spiritual woes is unbelief.”

“A dead soul and a living sin cannot long abide together.”

“Grace will reign through righteousness unto eternal life.”

“Unbelief is the mother of all sin.”

“Christ is a full Saviour; He saves to the uttermost.”

“Sin is the disease of the soul.”

“The promises of God are the believer's staff to lean upon in his journey through this wilderness.”

“The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbour.”

“The gospel is a proclamation of free grace to guilty sinners.”