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Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

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I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

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I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

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We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

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I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

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Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

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First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

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There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

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I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

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I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

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I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

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As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

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I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

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I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in His service, and for His Glory!!

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Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.

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Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!

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I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house.

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It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

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I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

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Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

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Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

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Once more, never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

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