Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

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.

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

Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.