Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.

What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.