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

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.

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.

Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

Conquer your mind and conquer the world.

Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.

As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.

Pity melts the mind to love.

And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.