The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me His existence.—­Bruyere.

We find in God all the excellences of light, truth, wisdom, greatness, goodness and life.  Light gives joy and gladness; truth gives satisfaction; wisdom gives learning and instruction; greatness excites admiration; goodness produces love and gratitude; life gives immortality and insures enjoyment.—­Jones of NAYLAND.

We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us.  In His strength let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and dangers of the world.  However they may rage and swell, though the mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved:  we have one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days.  That same is He who liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of hell and of death.—­Bishop Heber.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God:  man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.—­Feltham.

The man who forgets the wonders and mercies of the Lord is without any excuse; for we are continually surrounded with objects which may serve to bring the power and goodness of God strikingly to mind.—­Slade.

God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, and clothes itself in colors.  Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine heart feels its warmth.—­Richter.

A secret sense of God’s goodness is by no means enough.  Men should make solemn and outward expressions of it, when they receive His creatures for their support; a service and homage not only due to Him, but profitable to themselves.—­Dean Stanhope.

All is of God.  If He but wave His hand,
The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud;
Till, with a smile of light on sea and land,
Lo!  He looks back from the departing cloud.

Angels of life and death alike are His;
Without His leave they pass no threshold o’er;
Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this,
Against His messengers to shut the door? 
—­Longfellow.

“God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good.” * * * Wheresoever I turn my eyes, behold the memorials of His greatness! of His goodness! * * * What the world contains of good is from His free and unrequited mercy:  what it presents of real evil arises from ourselves.—­Bishop BLOMFIELD.

Gold.—­Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts.—­RIVAROL.

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp,—­gold and iron.  He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.—­Colton.