A Body of Divinity

Lord, I am content to be a loser, if thou be a gainer; to have less health, if I have more grace, and thou more glory.

Christ is never born in the heart without pangs. Many thank God they never had any trouble of spirit, they were always quiet; a sign Christ is not yet formed in them.

Death to a believer is crepusculum gloriae, the daybreak of eternal brightness. To show fully what a believer's gains are at death were a task too great for an angel; all hyperboles fall short of it; the reward of glory…

Happiness is nothing else but the quintessence of holiness; holiness is glory militant, and happiness holiness triumphant.