How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!

To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.

Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

Every drop of rain hits its appointed target.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.