Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

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

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.

True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.