God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.

Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.