Thomas Manton > Quotes

“Sin is sweet in commission, but bitter in remembrance.”
― Thomas Manton

“The hallowing of God's Name is the END toward which His Kingdom coming and the accomplishment of His will are among the MEANS.”
― Thomas Manton

“The creature's good is a superadded quality, in God it is His essence. He is infinitely good; the creature's good is but a drop, but in God there in an infinite ocean or gathering together of good.”
― Thomas Manton

“Grace is not impassible, or without passions and affections. The stoics held no man a good man but he that had lost all natural feeling and affection. Elijah was a man of like passions. Grace doth not abrogate our affections, but prefer them; it transplanted them out of Egypt that they may grow in Canaan; it doth not destroy nature, but direct it.”
― Thomas Manton, James

“Well, then, when the whole heart is engaged in this work, when we do not only study to know God, but make it our work to enjoy him, to rest in him as our all-sufficient portion, though there will be many defects, yet then are we said to seek him with the whole heart.”
― Thomas Manton, 158 Sermons on Psalm 119

“To press you to walk according to this rule, if you would be blessed. To this end let me press you to take the law of God for your rule, the Spirit of God for your guide, the promises for your encouragement, and the glory of God for your end.”
― Thomas Manton, 158 Sermons on Psalm 119

“To this end let me press you to take the law of God for your rule, the Spirit of God for your guide, the promises for your encouragement, and the glory of God for your end.”
― Thomas Manton, The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D.: With a Memoir of the Author Volume 6

“To enjoy God, who is the center of our rest and the fountain of our blessedness and the chief end for which we were made. It is our business to seek him, and our happiness to enjoy him,”
― Thomas Manton, By Faith: Sermons on Hebrews 11

“Wait for the light and power of the Spirit to incline and draw thy heart to God. Many times we are doctrinally right in point of blessedness, but not practically; we content ourselves with the mere notion, but are not brought under the power of these truths; that is the work of the Spirit.”
― Thomas Manton, 158 Sermons on Psalm 119

“we have this advantage:—”
― Thomas Manton, 158 Sermons on Psalm 119

“Because in conversion grace is given to observe all. There is a universal principle to incline the heart impartially to all. God infuser all grace together; not one particular.only in the hearts of his children, but the whole law. There is a form of grace introduced into the soul that suits with every point of the law. The heart is framed to resist every sin, to observe all that God hath commanded.”
― Thomas Manton, The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D.: With a Memoir of the Author Volume 6

“Foundations totter that are not laid deep enough. The more true light a man hath, the more cause of self-abasement will he find in himself. You can never magnify Christ enough, and you can never debase self enough; and certainly Christ is most exalted when you are most abased, Isa. 2:19. Dagon must fall upon his face if you mean to set up the ark; and if Christ shall be precious to you, you must be vile in your own eyes; none have such true revivings as the humble, Isa. 57:15,16.”
― Thomas Manton, The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D, Vol. 5