Thomas Boston

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

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

“Holiness is the symmetry of the soul.”

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

“Unbelief is the mother of all sin.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Sin is the disease of the soul.”

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

“Grace will reign through righteousness unto eternal life.”