Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?

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

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

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

Nature is God's greatest evangelist.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.