Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.

In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

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

God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

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.

Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.