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Thomas Doolittle Quotes
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“For if all the curses of the law lighting and abiding upon a man, will prove a man an accursed man — then the man who has no sincere love to Christ, must be that man!”
“That you are on this side the torments of the damned, not beyond praying, and hearing, and hoping, is all through Christ's securing for you longer time.”
“Can you love Christ — and delight in sin, which crucified your Lord?”
“O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.”
“That he is a good Savior, a good Redeemer, a good Lord and Master; a good excelling, transcending all inferior, sublunary good; good! not only good, but best — best in himself, and best for us!”
“When the damned do not love Christ, nor can love him, for they have not Christ, nor can have him.”
“All other things you might love are as common to lost people, as well as to the saved.”
“Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income.”
“Do you love your own children, your own sons and daughters — and will you not love the Son of God?”
“Love is the everlasting grace which shall abide and be in use and exercise, when the actings of other graces shall cease.”
“The barrenness with which the earth is cursed, in not bringing forth good fruit, and its abounding with briars and thorns — are both as rods for the scourging of sinful man.”
“These promises are so many, so great, so precious — and all are sure to the lovers of Christ.”
“All men can see their outward blessings — but they have no eyes to behold the inward curses which lie under those outward blessings.”
“For though Christ was made a curse to redeem us from the curse — yet those only have the saving benefits of that redemption, who have found faith in, and sincere love to, Jesus Christ.”
“All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under Heaven.”
“Will you also refuse life and happiness, by going on in your sin of not loving Christ?”
“Oh what a thing is this, that a man on earth should love Christ no more than the devils in Hell?”
“There are some graces suitable especially to our state of imperfection in this world.”
“The time will come, and is at hand — when you, and all that you love, besides Christ, must be separated.”