A Greater Absurdity Cannot Be Thought Of

A Truly Humble Man Is Sensible Of His Natural Distance From God; Of His Dependence On Him; Of The Insufficiency Of His Own Power And Wisdom; And That It Is By God's Power That He Is Upheld And Provided For, And That He Needs God's Wisdom To Lead And Guide Him, And His Might To Enable Him To Do What He Ought To Do For Him.

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.

Who Will Deny That True Religion Consists, In A Great Measure, In Vigorous And Lively Actings Of The Inclination And Will Of The Soul, Or The Fervent Exercises Of The Heart? That Religion Which God Requires, And Will Accept, Does Not Consist In Weak, Dull, And Lifeless, Wishes, Raising Us But A Little Above A State Of Indifference.

Resolved, Never To Do Anything Which I Should Be Afraid To Do If It Were The Last Hour Of My Life.

If You Long To Be More Like Christ, Then Act Like Him, And Walk As He Walked.