Halbert

“When we pray for grace and use opportunities to the full, this is laying a fig on the boil which will make us recover. To pray for holiness and neglect the means—is like winding up the clock and taking off the weights.”
― Thomas Watson, The Godly Man's Picture

“but that the necessity of being constantly engaged in learning is owing to our imperfection, he at the same time reminds us, that a subject which is of boundless extent cannot be comprehended by our feeble and narrow capacities.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

“Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord," (Psalm 27:14). He accuses himself of timidity, and repeating the same thing twice, confesses that he is ever and anon exposed to agitation. Still he is not only dissatisfied with himself for so feeling, but earnestly labors to correct it.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

“We shall never go to heaven when we die—unless we are in heaven while we live.”
― Thomas Watson, The Godly Man's Picture