True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

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

Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.

Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them.