Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

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.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

God designs that those whom He sanctifies...shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how great the deliverance is, which God has wrought for them.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

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