It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.

So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.