When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.