Lord, give me a patient spirit, so that I may not seek to avenge myself, even when I might righteously do so!
The power that love stirreth up is a greater power than what wrath stirreth up in God.
God loves us through Christ; he hears our prayers through Christ; he forgives us all our sins through Christ. Through Christ he justifies us; through Christ he sanctifies us; through Christ he upholds us; through Christ he perfects us.
It is but a false pretence of love to God that any man hath who liveth in any known sin. Where God is not loved above all, he is not loved at all; and he is not so where men will not part with one cursed […]