Stephen Charnock — Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

There must be some proportion between the object adored, and the manner in which we adore it; it must not be a mere corporeal worship, because God is not a body; but it must rise from the centre of our soul, because God…

The best man is more unworthy to receive anything from God than the worst can be to receive from us. How kind is God to those that blaspheme him, and gives them the same sun, and the same showers, that he doth to the bes…

As sincerity is the lustre of every grace in a Christian, so is purity the splendor of every attribute in the Godhead. Without it, his patience would be an indulgence to sin, his mercy a fondness, his wrath a madness, hi…

Nothing can make itself or bring itself into being. Therefore there must be some being that has no cause, that depends upon no other, never was produced by any other, but was what he is from eternity, cannot be otherwise…

Every plant, every atom, as well as every star, at the first meeting whispers this in our ears, I have a Creator, I am witness to a deity.

To serve other things, or to serve ourselves, is to waste a service upon that which is nothing. In devoting ourselves to God, we serve him that is; that was, so as that he never began; is to come, so as that he never sha…