God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and kindly receives them, and dedicates them to the Father by a solemn act of blessing.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.