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.

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

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

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

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

Regeneration is a spiritual change; conversion is a spiritual motion.