Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

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

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

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.