- “God makes none of his people to excel in a gift, but some one time or other he will afford them use for the whole compass of it.”
- “When God wills one thing and the creature the contrary, it is easy to see which will must be done. When the omnipotent arm holds, in vain does the creature draw.”
- “There are many prayers not to be answered till we come to the other world, and there will be answered at once.”
- “There is never a crook God makes in our lot but it is in effect heaven’s offer of a blessed exchange to us. Sell whatsoever thou hast, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.”
- “Impatience under the crook lays an overweight on the burden, and makes us less able to bear it.”
- “A proud heart will make a cross to itself, where a lowly one would find none.”
- “It is far more needful to have our spirits humbled and brought down than to have the cross removed.”
- “It is a shame for us not to be humbled by such wants as attend us; it is like a beggar strutting in his rags.”
- “All men must certainly bow or break under the mighty hand.”
- “Lay your account with it, that if you get where the Fore-runner is, ye must go thither as He went.”
- “Who would not be pleased to walk through the dark valley, treading in Christ’s steps.”
- “Standing on the shore and looking back on what you have passed through, you will be made to say, ‘He hath done all things well.’ Those things which are bitter to Christians in passing through them are very sweet on the reflection on them. So is Samson’s riddle verified in their experience.”
- “Let patience have her perfect work. The husbandman waits for the return of his seed, the sea-merchant for the return of his ships, the stockmaster for what he calls ear-time, when he draws in the produce of his flocks. All these have long patience. And why should not the Christian, too, have patience, and patiently wait for the time appointed for his lifting up?”—Rev. Dr. Andrew Thomson’s Thomas Boston, of Ettrick: His Life and Times.