Thomas Vincent Quotes

“The life of Christianity consists very much in our love to Christ. Without love to Christ, we are as much without spiritual life, as a carcass when the soul is fled from it is without natural life.”

“Faith without love to Christ is a dead faith, and a professor without love to Christ is a dead professor, dead in sins and trespasses.”

“The ground of this love to Christ is the discovery and believing apprehensions of Christ's loveliness and love.”

“Whatever motive induces Christ to love you, it was not drawn from yourselves, but it was drawn from His own affectionate heart!”

“Be much in holy contemplation of Christ. Spend time in secret retirement, and there think and think again, of the superlative excellencies and perfections which are in Christ.”

“Christ loved you with the freest love; there is nothing in yourselves to draw and engage His love.”

“If you love Christ, you will account duty to be your privilege and the service of Christ to be freedom.”

“The love of Christ is not subject to mutations and changes like ours.”

“Christ's free and sovereign love is a matter of the greatest admiration, and should be a motive unto the greatest affection unto Him.”

“There is no greater and higher object for your love than the Lord Jesus Christ, a person of so great eminency and excellency.”

“The love of Christ does not make ashamed; it is no matter of dishonor.”

“None have such wisdom and understanding as those who have and keep this statute and commandment to love the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“The wicked that hate Christ are like dirt; the righteous that love Him are like jewels.”

“Sin is the soul's sickness; you are sick unto death.”

“The more room sin has in your hearts the less room Christ will have there.”

“Christ has opened your eyes to see the chief evil that you might be delivered from it.”

“Christ manifests Himself when He makes a clearer revelation unto His disciples of the excellency of His person.”

“The love of Christ is like fire that cannot conceal itself long.”

“There is no fire so strong, or has such a vehement flame, as the love of Christ to His people.”

“If you know that Christ loves you, you may know assuredly that you are elected.”

“Take heed of indulging yourselves in any sins which may provoke Him to depart from you.”

“Be diligent in the use of all means public, private, and secret, whereby you may maintain daily communion and fellowship with Him.”

“If Christ is not in you, you have no interest in him and his deliverance. Faith is a resting of the soul on Christ alone, and an application of the promises of pardon and life to the soul.”

“Be careful in your choice of a pastor; choose one who in his doctrine, life, and manners, may adorn the gospel.”

“A sad face there is now in the ruinous part of London, and terrible hath the Voice of the Lord been, which hath been crying, yea roaring in the City by these dreadful Judgements of the Plague and Fire.”

“The life of Christianity consists very much in our love unto Christ.”

“Without love to Christ, we are as much without spiritual life, as a carcass when the soul is fled from it is without natural life.”

“The loveliness of Christ appears not to the eye of sense, but to the eye of faith.”

“Christ is 'altogether lovely!' He is unlovely in no respect, there being no spot or blemish, no defect or imperfection, to be found in Him.”

“The reign of sin in the heart is inconsistent with the love of Christ in the heart.”