We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

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

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.