Since I have given quotes on the imprecatory psalms for several Sundays, and I might do several more still, I thought that it might benefit all of you to also provide some quotes on other subjects even while I continue harping about the imprecatory psalms.

Here is one in which Thomas Watson mentions a neglected aspect of spirituality:

To glorify God is to set God highest in our thoughts, and to have a venerable esteem of him….To glorify God is to have God-admiring thoughts; to esteem him most excellent, and search for diamonds in this rock only.

Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity
(The Banner of Truth Trust), p. 7.

Holiness consists not only in external good works, but also in the mind, and in fact, first in the mind.

Recommended:

Vincent Cheung, Prayer and Revelation
Vincent Cheung, Renewing the Mind
Vincent Cheung, Godliness with Contentment

Gordon Clark, Sanctification

John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Edmund Clowney, Christian Meditation

Christian books on sanctification are characteristically sloppy, imprecise, unbiblical, and often somewhat anti-intellectualistic and mystical. There are some good ones, though, and I might take time to recommend some of them on this blog in the future. In general, my advice is that you should always read something on sanctification by a competent systematic theologian rather than one who is famous only for writing "devotional" literature.

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