“Should we not think ourselves worthy of contempt to dote upon a perishing glory, to expect support from an arm of flesh, when there is an eternal beauty to ravish us, an eternal arm to protect us?” — William Symington Copy Share Image
“Fire increaseth by laying together many coals on one place; so is devotion inflamed by the union of many hearts, and by a joint… — William Symington Copy Share Image
“A man must be ignorant of himself before he can be ignorant of the existence of God.” — William Symington Copy Share Image
“To conclude this: As when a man comes into a palace, built according to the exactest rule of art, and with an unexceptionable conveniency for the inhabitants, he would acknowledge both the being and skill of the builder; so whosoever shall observe the disposition of all the parts of the world, their connection, comeliness, the variety of seasons, the swarms… — William Symington Copy Share
“All the superstition this day living in the world is built upon this foundation: so natural it is to man to pull God down… — William Symington Copy Share Image
“A man may sooner engrave the chronicle of a whole nation, or all the records of God in the Scripture upon the hardest marble… — William Symington Copy Share Image
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God:" it is to be acted in everything we do; but in worship our hearts should more solemnly… — William Symington Copy Share Image
“The enjoyment of God will be as fresh and glorious after many ages, as it was at first. God is eternal, and eternity knows no change; there will then be the fullest possession without any decay in the object enjoyed. There can be nothing past, nothing future; time neither adds to it, nor detracts from it; that infinite fulness of… — William Symington Copy Share
“Should we not think ourselves worthy of contempt to dote upon a perishing glory, to expect support from an arm of flesh, when there… — William Symington Copy Share Image
“Love is appetites unionis; the more love, the more delight in the approachings of God to the soul, or the outgoings of the soul… — William Symington Copy Share Image
“If self-denial be the greatest part of godliness, the great letter in the alphabet of religion; self-love is the great letter in the alphabet… — William Symington Copy Share Image
“The pretences of the atheist are so ridiculous, that they are not worth the mentioning. They never saw God, and therefore know not how… — William Symington Copy Share Image
“To make any corporeal representations of God is unworthy of God. It is a disgrace to his nature.” — William Symington Copy Share Image
