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

What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision!

It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us.

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.

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

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