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

Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion.

Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.

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.

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.

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.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.