the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

the Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.

Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.

Our names... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further we shall have no use of them ourselves.

When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.

It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.