The Seeking Of The Kingdom Of God

That There Should Absolutely Be Nothing At All Is Utterly Impossible. The Mind, Let It Stretch Its Conceptions Ever So Far, Can Never So Much As Bring Itself To Conceive Of A State Of Perfect Nothing.

I Know Not How To Express Better, What My Sins Appear To Me To Be, Than By Heaping Infinite Upon Infinite, And Multiplying Infinite By Infinite . . . When I Look Into My Heart And Take A View Of My Wickedness, It Looks Like An Abyss Infinitely Deeper Than Hell.

Religion Consists Much In Holy Affection; But Those Exercises Of Affection Which Are Most Distinguishing Of True Religion Are These Practical Exercises. Friendship Between Earthly Friends Consists Much In Affection; But Those Strong Exercises Of Affection That Actually Carry Them Through Fire And Water For Each Other Are The Highest Evidences Of True Friendship.

If There Be Ground For You To Trust, As You Do, In Your Own Righteousness, Then All That Christ Did To Purchase Salvation, And All That God Did From The Fall Of Man To Prepare The Way For It, Is In Vain. Consider What Greater Folly Could You Have Devised To Charge Upon God Than This, That All Those Things Were Done So Needlessly; When, Instead Of All This, He Might Only Have Called You Forth, And Committed The Business To You, Which You Think You Can Do So Easily.

If We Make A Great Show Of Respect And Love To God, In The Outward Actions, While There Is No Sincerity In The Heart, It Is But Hypocrisy And Practical Lying Unto The Holy One.