The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.