“There are some men and women who have lived forty or fifty years in the world and have scarcely had one hour’s discourse with their own hearts all the while.”
“He who will keep his heart must take heed of plunging himself into such a multiplicity of earthly business that he cannot manage it without neglecting his main business.”
“Take heed of losing the liveliness and sweetness of your communion with God, lest thereby your hearts be pulled off from God. The heart is a hungry and restless thing; it will have something to feed upon. If it enjoys nothing from God, it will hunt for something among the creatures, and there it often loses itself as well as its end. There is nothing that more engages the heart to a constancy and evenness in walking with God than the sweetness which it tastes therein.”