There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me....of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.

Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.