“Oh that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory.”

“I have received my all from God. Oh that I could return my all to God”

“Oh that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.”

“There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul. . .How blessed it is to grow more and more like God!”

“I love to live on the brink of eternity.”

“It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.”

“If my life be not my own, it were criminal for me to put it in danger, as well as to dispose of it; nor could one man deserve the appellation of hero, whom glory or friendship transports into the greatest dangers, and another merit the reproach of wretch or misereant who puts a period to his life, from the same or like motives.”