If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.

Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?

All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

To live with all my might, while I do live