God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.

A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.

Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.

When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

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

The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.

The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise.