There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.