The most thankful person is the most fully human.

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.

Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.

God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.