All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

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

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him.