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

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.

Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

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

It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.

Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it.

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