Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!