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.

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

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government.