I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.