It is our duty to look to God’s commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His purposes. The decrees of God are a vast ocean, into which many possibly have curiously pried to their own horror and despair; but few or none have ever pried into them to their own profit and satisfaction.
— Thomas Boston (1676–1732), Pastor
Topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Guidance & God's Will, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Occasions: For Reflection
Thomas Boston
Thomas Boston (1676–1732) war ein schottischer presbyterianischer Pfarrer und Theologe, der vor allem in der Gemeinde Ettrick wirkte. Bekanntheit erlangte er durch geistliche Schriften wie „Human Nature in Its Fourfold State“ sowie seinen Einsatz im Marrow-Streit für das unbedingte, freie Gnadenangebot des Evangeliums. Für heutige Bibelleser steht sein Werk für eine reformierte Bundestheologie und Seelsorge, die den Umgang mit persönlichen Lebensprüfungen eng mit dem Trost der göttlichen Gnade verknüpft.
All quotes by Thomas Boston (14)
A drop of love is worth more than an ocean of reason.
Blaise Pascal
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
Craig Groeschel
The devil is a better theologian than any of us, and he is still a devil.
A.W. Tozer
Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.
Craig Groeschel
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
Tim Keller
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
C.S. Lewis
Martin Luther