He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.
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.
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.
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.
When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.
If we take reason strictly, the perceiving of spiritual beauty and excellence no more belongs to reason than it belongs to the sense of feeling to perceive colors or to the power of seeing to perceive the sweetness of food.
If a sight of Christ’s outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?
Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under dominion of sin, than to confirm holiness on that which before had nothing of the contrary.
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.
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
The best most beautiful and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.
Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.