Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love – through loving and being loved.

We have the promise of God’s being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham’s seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

It is not enough to hear a sermon, but you must eat it down, take in what it commands, and then it will purge your heart... Take the word and digest it, squeeze the juice of it into thy heart, and it will purge thee from all contrary corruption.” pg.73.

What is the cause of all God’s purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

Christ’s riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

Judas heard all Christ’s sermons.

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people’s hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.