Birds make no provision for the future themselves, and yet every day, provision is made for them, and their eyes wait on God, that great and good Housekeeper, who provides food for all flesh.…Expand
He has not promised to gratify all the appetites of the body and the humours of the fancy, but to grant all the desires of the heart, all the cravings of the renewed sanctified soul.…Expand
My substance, when hid in the womb, nay, when it was yet but in the forming, an unshapen embryo, was not hidden from thee; thy eyes did see my substance.
The best saints are sensible of their proneness to go astray like lost sheep; but when God shows them their error, gives them repentance, and brings them back to their duty again, he restores the soul.…Expand
Those can do Christ's disciples no real harm, and therefore ought not to be dreaded, who can but kill the body; for they only send that to its rest, and the soul to its joy, the sooner.…Expand
The love that exists between God and true believers is through Christ. He is the Mediator of our love: it is in and through him that God can love us and that we dare love God.
