In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

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

When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.

But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.

But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.

... it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.