By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

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.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.