I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.