To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.

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?

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

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.