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

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls!

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

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

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

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.