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.

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

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

I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

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!