When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

The highest honor in the church is not government but service.