Weeds grow of themselves; flowers are planted. Sanctification is a flower of the Spirit’s planting. -Thomas Watson

It is faith alone that has saved him: faith bestowed by sheer gift. From this buoyant humility, this farewell to the self with all its good resolutions, anxiety, scruples, and motive-scratchings, all the Protestant doctrines originally sprang….Protestantism was not too grim, but too glad to be true. -C.S. Lewis in his English Literature in the Sixteenth Century

“I hope to over-hope and over-believe my troubles.” -Samuel Rutherford

“The flesh inclines us more to believe a temptation than a promise.”-Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken by Storm

Christ is beauty to adorn, gold to enrich, balm to heal, bread to strengthen, wine to comfort, salvation to crown. If we are in danger, Christ is a shield; and if we are disconsolate, he is a sun; for he hath enough in his wardrobe abundantly to furnish the soul. – Thomas Watson

The pleasure of pride is like the pleasure of scratching. If there is an itch one does want to scratch; but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch. As long as we have the itch of self-regard we shall want the pleasue of self-approval; but the happiest moments are those when we forget our precious selves and have neither but have everything else (God, our fellow humans, animals, the garden, and the sky) instead.           -C.S. Lewis