Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.
Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.
Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.
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.
I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ.
I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.
Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom.
I love to live on the brink of eternity.
I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.
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!
There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.