So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

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.

Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.