“What the mind cannot understand of the things of God, the heart worships and adores, delighting in God’s infinite wisdom and giving glory to him in every situation and circumstance, knowing that nothing ever happens except by the express will of God.”
John Owen
“What we are when alone, that we are and no more.”
John Owen
“It is stupid to suppose that we will forever find our highest happiness in Christ’s presence if we do not spend as much time as possible with him now. . . . How can we call ourselves Christians if we spend our days hardly ever thinking of Christ?”
John Owen
“Every disaster teaches us the uncertainty and instability of earthly enjoyments and how foolish we are to set our hearts too much on them.”
John Owen
“However earnestly and frequently a man prays, if he does nothing to help his poor neighbor, then we may well question the value of his prayers.”
John Owen
“Not anything that God sees good for them shall those men want (lack) that fear the Lord. If health will do them good, if sickness will do them good, if riches will do them good, if poverty will do them good, if life will do them good, if death will do them good, then they shall not want (lack) them, neither will any of these things come nigh them.”
John Bunyan
“The foundation of worship in the heart . . . is not emotional (‘I feel full of worship’ or ‘The atmosphere is so worshipful’). Actually it is theological. Worship is not something we ‘work up’ , it is something that ‘comes down’ to us, from the character of God.”
Sinclair Ferguson
God is glorified not only by His glory’s being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. When those that see it delight in it, God is more glorified than if they only see it. His glory is then received by the whole soul, both by the understanding and by the heart.
Jonathan Edwards
