Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.

Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne: Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee (ed. 1846)