In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed; the sweat ran down my face and body; and nature seemed as if it would dissolve.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.