Self-righteousness exclaims, "I will not be saved in God's way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow before God's grace; I will not accept the atonement which God has wrought out in the person of Jesus; I will be my own redeemer; I will enter heaven by my own strength, and glorify my own merits." The Lord is very wroth against self-righteousness. I do not know of anything against which His fury burneth more than against this, because this touches Him in a very tender point, it insults the glory and honor of His Son Jesus Christ.

Prayer is the best response to hatred.

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Lord, save all the elect, and then elect some more.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.