Every life will be better if God is at the center of it.

I can think of God as my savior and even my friend, but I must never forget that He is God, and after He saves me, I must put myself in subjection to Him and His will.

God so commanded, and left that command Sole daughter of his voice; the rest, we live law to ourselves, our reason is our law.

So absolute she seems and in herself complete, so well to know her own, that what she wills to do or say, seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part do thou but thine, and be not diffident of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, by attributing overmuch to things less excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

Reason also is choice.

We learn to tread more warily, to trust less to our own strength, to have lower thoughts of ourselves, and higher thoughts of Him; in which two last particulars I apprehend what the Scripture means by a growth of grace does properly consist. Both are increasing in the lively Christian: —-every day shows him more of his own heart, and more of the power, sufficiency, compassion, and grace of his adorable Redeemer; but neither will be complete till we get to Heaven. I

Here is the humble confidence of faith - that what God begins shall not miscarry and those whom He leads shall not be lost.

To be humble, and like a little child, afraid of taking a step alone, and so conscious of snares and dangers around us as to cry to Him continually to hold us up that we may be safe, is the sure, the infallible, the only secret of walking closely with Him.

They had experienced a variety of God's providential actions, but they did not yet understand God's ultimate goals.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...