Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

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.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.