Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.