We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.

Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.