Doug Eaton

“God is “all in all.” He therefore is, or ought to be, the only supreme, absolute object of our thoughts and desires; other things are from and for him only.”
― John Owen, Spiritual-Mindedness

“Now the first covenant is allowed on all hands to be too hard; and the second is thought by most to be too easy, and would fall to pieces, unless shored up by sincere obedience. Accordingly, by the help of this rotten buttress, men have patched up a third covenant, consisting partly of works, and partly of grace.”
― John Berridge, The works of the Rev. John Berridge ... with an enlarged memoir of his life: numerous letters, anecdotes ... and his original Sion's songs

“God will give the strength of ripe manhood—with the burden allotted to full-grown shoulders.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

“The question slipped out of my mouth and shlopped onto the floor like a dead fish where the four of us stared blankly at it.”
― M.D. Eaton, And I Heard the Mourner Say