The Crook in the Lot Quotes

“As the light depends on the sun, or the shadow on the body that casts it, so we also depend on God; without Him, we can do nothing,”
― Thomas Boston, The Crook in the Lot: God's Sovereignty in Afflictions: In Modern English

“Call on Me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me." The whole life of a Christian is a praying, waiting life.”
― Thomas Boston, The Crook in The Lot

“Trials wean us from this world and prompt us to look to the happiness of the next world.”
― Thomas Boston, The Crook in the Lot: God's Sovereignty in Afflictions: In Modern English

“As to the crook in your lot, God has made it; and it must continue while He will have it so. Should you ply your utmost force to even it, or make it straight, your attempt will be vain: it will not change for all you can do. Only He who made it can mend it, or make it straight.”
― Thomas Boston, The Crook in the Lot; or, The sovereignty and wisdom of God displayed in the afflictions of men

“In order to test our submission to Him, God has subjected us to others whom He has set over us. He then discovers what regard we will pay to His authority through the commands from others. Dominion or superiority is a part of the divine image shining in us (1 Cor 11:7).5 Therefore, we must reverence these qualities with respect to the ray of the divine image shining in them (Eph 5:33).6 The same principle holds in all other relations and superiorities; they are reflecting the authority of God with those under them (Ps 82:6).7 And although those in authority are worthless in themselves, He does not release us from our debt of submission (Acts 23:1-5,8 Rom 13:79). Our respect rests not on the qualities of others but on their position, which is the ground of our debt of reverence and subjection”
― Thomas Boston, The Crook in the Lot: God's Sovereignty in Afflictions: In Modern English

“we often find that our greatest cross occurs in the place where we expected the greatest comfort.”
― Thomas Boston, The Crook in the Lot: God's Sovereignty in Afflictions: In Modern English

“The truth is, the crook in the lot is the great engine of Providence for making men appear in their true colours, discovering both their ill and their good. And if the grace of God is in them, it will bring it out, and cause it to display itself. It so puts the Christian to his shifts, that however it makes him stagger for awhile, yet it will at length evidence both the reality and the strength of grace in him. "You are in heaviness through manifold temptations, that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, may be found unto praise.”
― Thomas Boston, The Crook in The Lot

“So do men oftentimes find their greatest cross where they expected their greatest comfort.”
― Thomas Boston, The Crook In the Lot: God’s Sovereignty and Wisdom Displayed In Our Afflictions