Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

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

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

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

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

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.