Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

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

My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom

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