The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

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.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

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