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

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?

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?

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