Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

After a storm comes a calm.

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.