As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

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

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

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.