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.

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

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.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

Compassion, not castigation is the way to help a person become better.

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

I don't want anything bad to happen to me.

You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.

Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.