That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them: so it is in a moral as well as a natural way: all the prudence and pains in the world avail nothing without God. So saith the Psalmist, in Psalm cxxvii. 2.

Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.