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.

Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

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

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.