Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life.

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.

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.