Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.

Trust in God and ye need not fear.

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.