Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable and my thirstings after holiness more unquenchable.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

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

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.