God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
True weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.
All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.
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[the Devil]... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it...
If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, tis rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as seeing it.
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.
