The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

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

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

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

By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.

If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.

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.