Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.