Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

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

How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our souls.

All worship is shot wrong that is not directed to, and conducted by, the thoughts of the power of God, whose assistance we need.

God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.

The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.