Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

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!

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

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.