“True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.”

He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.

We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‘Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.’

Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.