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.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

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.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

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