The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.