Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.
The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail.
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.
Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.
To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.
The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.
If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.
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