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

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

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

Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude.