I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God.

How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.

I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.