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

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

All this and heaven too.