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“Yet though we cannot have a suitable conception of God, we must not content ourselves without any conception of him. It is our sin not to endeavor after a true notion of him; it is our sin to rest in a mean and low notion of him, when our reason tells us we are capable of having higher.”

The 3rd discourse (On God Being A Spirit) challenged my often lazy thinking of who God is.

“If we bend our force against those two, self-will and self-ends, we shall intercept atheism at the springhead” - from the closing pages of Discourse 2 on Practical Atheism

After 100 tough pages on how we fall short of glorifying God and instead attempt to set ourselves up as our own ends, fulfilling our own passions and desires, he asks what the use of all this is: “It gives us occasion to admire the wonderful patience and mercy of God”