Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

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

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

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.

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

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