When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

In natures, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture; in the law, as the sun in a cloud; in Christ we see Him in His beams; He being 'the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person.

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

God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.

Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

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