Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.
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.
All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.
All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart s...
The best most beautiful and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all thi...
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.
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?
The material universe exists only in the mind.
Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.
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...
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.
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
The example of Jesus Christ is the only perfect example that ever existed in human nature. It is therefore, a rule by which to try all other examples; and the dispositions, frames and practices of oth...
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
The way to Heaven is ascending we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often...
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.
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