“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he” (Proverbs 29:18).

“The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem” (Lamentations 4:12).

“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (II Timothy 1:7).

“For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?” (Job 31:2).

“He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S, and He hath set the world upon them” (I Samuel 2:8).