If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!