“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.”

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.

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.

There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.

If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

It’s a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You!

It is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work.

Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.