If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.

If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.