Thomas Manton

“He that delays his conversion doth, as it were, pawn his soul into the devil's hands, and saith, If he do not fetch it again at such a day, it is his for ever.”

“If they may have the world, and live in honour and pleasure here, they give God an acquittance for anything else.”

“Some men are strong to drink wine; they are tubs and hogsheads, as Ambrose calls them, rather than men.”

“It is a delight and rejoicing to God to see his children just and righteous in all their dealings.”

“The field of the sluggard is overgrown with thistles. you grow barren, raw, sapless, and lose the choiceness of your spirits, and the savouriness of your thoughts, when you are seldom with God.”

“In paradise there was a tempter, but none in heaven; Satan was long since cast out thence, and the saints fill up the vacant rooms of the apostate angels.”