For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.
SamuelThe first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.
SamuelThe LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
Samuel