If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.

The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may also love his person: so the soul first loves Christ for salvation, but when it is brought to him, and finds what sweetness there is in him, then the soul loves him for himself, and esteems his person, as well as rejoices in his benefits.

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.

Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.

The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of prosperity, scatters its affections, and looses itself in the creature; but there is a uniting power in sanctified afflictions, by which a believer, (as in rain a hen collects her brood) gathers his best affections unto his Father and his God.