John Knox

“The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

“when the heart of a man has nothing to do, but to be busy about creature-comforts, every little thing troubles him; but when the heart is taken up with the weighty things of eternity, with the great things of eternal life, the things of here below that disquieted it before are things now of no consequence to him in comparison with the other-how things fall out here is not much regarded by him, if the one thing that is necessary is provided for.”
― Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

“The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress