“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”

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.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.

By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.

They said do what you want, because if we don’t like it no one will hear it.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature’s, not honour’s law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

Oh darling, if you won’t be yourself who will?