The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

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.

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

To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low.

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as (the) brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun'.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

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.

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 strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious and gracious Friend expressing his mind to us by his word, that we may know it.