Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

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

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.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.

Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.