Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.
Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.
Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.
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.
Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.
God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.