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The two great graces essential to a saint in this life are faith and repentance. These are the two wings by which he flies to heaven.

— Thomas Watson The Doctrine of Repentance (1668)

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We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.

Repentance is purgative; fear not the working of this pill.

The Doctrine of Repentance (1668)

Obedience carries in it the life-blood of religion.

There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.

Leaving sin is not enough, unless we embrace righteousness.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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