Truth Is The Agreement Of Our Ideas

Whether God Has Decreed All Things That Ever Come To Pass Or Not, All That Own The Being Of A God, Own That He Knows All Things Beforehand. Now, It Is Self-evident That If He Knows All Things Beforehand, He Either Doth Approve Of Them Or Doth Not Approve Of Them; That Is, He Either Is Willing They Should Be, Or He Is Not Willing They Should Be. But To Will That They Should Be Is To Decree Them.

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.

True Weanedness From The World Don't Consist In Being Beat Off From The World By The Affliction Of It, But A Being Drawn Off By The Sight Of Something Better.

Sincere Friendship Towards God, In All Who Believe Him To Be Properly An Intelligent, Willing Being, Does Most Apparently, Directly, And Strongly Incline To Prayer; And It No Less Disposes The Heart Strongly To Desire To Have Our Infinitely Glorious.

If You Long To Be More Like Christ, Then Act Like Him, And Walk As He Walked.