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!

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

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

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.

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

I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house.