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

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

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

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

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.

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