Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.