I Frequently Hear Persons In Old Age

How Can You Expect To Dwell With God Forever, If You So Neglect And Forsake Him Here?

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.

Immediately Upon The Fall, The Mind Of Man Shrank From Its Primitive Greatness And Expandedness, To An Exceeding Smallness And Contractedness... Before, His Soul Was Under The Government Of The Noble Principles Of Divine Love, Whereby It Was Enlarged To The Comprehensiveness Of All His Fellow Creatures And Their Welfare... [but] Sin, Like Some Powerful Astringent, Contracted His Soul To The Very Small Dimensions Of Selfishness, And God Was Forsaken, And Man Retired Within Himself, And Became Totally Governed By Narrow And Selfish Principles And Feelings.

When God Is About To Do A Great Work, He Pours Out A Spirit Of Supplication.

Men Will Trust In God No Further Than They Know Him; And They Cannot Be In The Exercise Of Faith In Him One Ace Further Than They Have A Sight Of His Fulness And Faithfulness In Exercise.