The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.