"God shall not pity them but laugh at……" — Thomas Boston
"God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's judgment, and shall sing while the smoke riseth up for ever."
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33 Quotes by Thomas Boston
Thomas Boston has 33 quotes on this site.
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Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to…
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Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.
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Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.
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What an honourable thing is it to be fishers of men! How great an honour shouldst thou esteem it, to…
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O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part…
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Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.
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The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no…
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If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.
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In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured…
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It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not…
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Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are…
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Again, the glory of one attribute is more seen in one work than in another: in some things there is…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to…
— Aeschylus
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the…
— William Whately
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be…
— Sun Tzu
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If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you…
— Torii Mototada
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Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which…
— Sun Tzu
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