God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.

All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.

A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

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.

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.

I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.