Puritan Quotes

Do not think on the comforts you lack, but on the mercies you have. Look rather at God's end in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction! 

[Christopher Love]

The humble Christian studies his own unworthiness. He looks with one eye upon grace to keep his heart cheerful; and with the other eye upon sin to keep it humble. 

[Thomas Watson]

If Satan's darts have wounded us, then faith cools the scalding heat of sin by applying to us the precious balm of Christ's blood!  

[Christopher Love]

Sin is a leprous spot. It makes everything we touch unclean! 

[Thomas Watson]

A man with God is always in the majority! 

[John Knox]

The tongue exists to reveal our heart! 

[John Calvin]

The human heart is a factory of idols! 

[John Calvin

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does! 

[Martin Luther]

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God! 

[Martin Luther]

The bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me! 

[Martin Luther]

It is certain that a man must completely despair of himself, in order to be fit for the grace of Christ! 

[Martin Luther]

Faith is the wedding ring in which we have pledged ourselves to Christ! 

[Martin Luther]

Ministerial work is to make saints out of sinners, living souls out of the dead,
children of God, out of servants of the Devil! 

[Martin Luther]

Ministers should make it their business not to set forth new notions, but to press on Christians old truths, and known duties. 

[Thomas Gouge]

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Divine Providence

God's providence, as it is taught in Scripture, is opposed to fortune and chance. There is no such thing as fortune or chance, these are pagan terms, with which the minds of the godly ought not to be occupied.  All events are governed by God's secret plan!

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission, as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events, and His judgments thus depended upon human will.  It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.  Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.  God so regulates all things, that nothing happens but what He has knowingly and willingly decreed.

Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God!No creature has a force more wondrous or glorious than that of the sun. The sun does not daily rise and set by blind instinct of nature but God Himself, to renew our remembrance of His fatherly favors toward us, governs its course.  In times of adversity, believers comfort themselves with the solace that they suffer nothing except by God's ordaining and command, for they are under His all-controlling hand.

[John Calvin]

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Ephesians 1:11 … In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Matthew 10:29 … Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.



Psalm 103:19 … The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.❤

Calvin Quotes

Man's heart, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols!

When the Bible speaks, God speaks!

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world!

Without the fear of God men do not even observe justice among themselves!

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, and is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy that it often dupes itself!

[John Calvin]



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