“Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.”

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.

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

Hold me like the end is near and I swear I’ll risk hades’ wrath just to keep you here.

Because, in the end, it was just promises.

Her end was her beginning, and her every new start was the end to her old version.

The pain grows within you only to end within you

Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.

In the end, it’s all about what you chose not to become

Don’t be a match to someone else’s candle because, in the end, you’ll both burn out.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.