Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.

Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.