Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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.