It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

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

True faith is ever connected with hope.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

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.

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.