Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.

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

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.

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

Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them.

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