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

By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.

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.

My latest found, Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new delight!

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

The best apology against false accusers is silence.

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status.

I’ve only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It’s the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.