Thomas Manton

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

Men are barren, dry, and sapless in their prayers for want of exercising themselves in holy thoughts.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

What we take in the word we digest by meditation and let out by prayer.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

To hear and not to meditate is unfruitful. We may hear and hear, but it is like putting a thing into a bag with holes

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

The end of study is to hoard up truth; but of meditation to lay it forth in conference or holy conversation.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

Study is like a winter sun, that shines, but warms not: but meditation is like a blowing upon the fire.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

The end of study is information, and the end of meditation is practice, or a work upon the affections.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

Continued meditation brings great profit to the soul. Passant and transient thoughts are more pleasant, but not so profitable.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

The children of God should desire only God's glory, and in all other things leave themselves to His disposal.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

A man’s greatest care should be for that place where he dwelleth longest; therefore eternity should be in his scope.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

Excess in meat and drink clouds the mind, chokes good affections, and provokes lust. Many a man digs his own grave with his teeth.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

Comfort may be increased by the sight of good works, but it is not built upon them; they are seeds of hope, not props of confidence.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

Works are not a ground of confidence, but an evidence; not the foundations of faith, but the encouragements of assurance.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

Self-love may lead us to prayers, but love to God excites us to praises.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

The more affected we are with our misery, the fitter for Christ’s mercy.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

There is in man a mint always at work: his mind coining evil thoughts, his heart, evil desires and carnal emotion.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

Till we sin Satan is a parasite; but when once we are in the devil’s hands he turns tyrant.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

We know God like men born blind know the fire: they know there is such a thing, for they feel it warm them, but what it is they know not.

[Thomas Manton @ThomasManton]

One way to get comfort is to plead the promise of God in prayer, show Him His handwriting; God is tender of His Word.