God warns before he wounds.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

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.

Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.