Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.

Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.