Every drop of rain hits its appointed target.

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.