“Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.”

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.

The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.