By The Grace Of God We Will

The Best, Most Beautiful, And Most Perfect Way That We Have Of Expressing A Sweet Concord Of Mind To Each Other Is By Music.

The Ingenerating Of A Principle Of Grace In The Soul Seems In Scripture To Be Compared To The Conceiving Of Christ In The Womb... And The Conception Of Christ In The Womb Of The Blessed Virgin By The Power Of The Holy Ghost, Seems To Be A Designed Resemblance Of The Conception Of Christ In The Soul Of A Believer By The Power Of The Same Holy Ghost.

Resolved, When I Feel Pain, To Think Of The Pains Of Martyrdom, And Of Hell.

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.

God Is The Highest Good Of The Reasonable Creature. The Enjoyment Of Him Is Our Proper; And Is The Only Happiness With Which Our Souls Can Be Satisfied. To Go To Heaven, Fully To Enjoy God, Is Infinitely Better Than The Most Pleasant Accommodations Here. Better Than Fathers And Mothers, Husbands, Wives, Or Children, Or The Company Of Any, Or All Earthly Friends. These Are But Shadows; But The Enjoyment Of God Is The Substance. These Are But Scattered Beams; But God Is The Sun. These Are But Streams; But God Is The Fountain. These Are But Drops, But God Is The Ocean.