In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others