The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

And now let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all His providences, about such vile, despicable worms as we are! He does not need us, but is perfectly blessed and happy in Himself without us. We can add nothing to Him.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.

Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid of our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately upon them.