An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.

The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.

Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily desiring something more than the supply of his present need, he rejoices that God still cares for him. Such an one is "content" with such as he has (Heb. 13:5).

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honoured by our asking, just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing.