It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.

That Bible is read best, which is practised most.

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and indispensable necessity, like repentance, faith, and conversion. But it is impossible to say that any professing Christian is in a safe, healthy, or satisfactory condition of soul, who habitually refuses to obey Christ and attend the Lord's Table.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.