The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

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.

Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.