Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.

If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.

Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.