The Human heart is an idol factory.

Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

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

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.

... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.