We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.

In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not Christian patience. But to humbly submit because it is the will of God to inflict the trial, to be silent because the sovereignty of God orders it - is true godly patience.

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.