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.

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

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

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.

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.

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.

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!