Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

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.

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.