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“how dare you lift, your eyes to heaven with such purposes in your heart? Escape homeward, and save your soul, or farewell for ever!”

“When I lay in bed, I deemed there were two of us in it (…)The most perverse part of it was, that I rarely conceived myself to be any of the two persons. I thought for the most part that my companion was one of them, and my brother the other; and I found, that to be obliged to speak and answer in the character of another man, was. most awkward business at the long run.”

“Behold thou dost not know one half of thy might, or of the great things thou art destined to do.”

“If once a man is prejudiced on one side,
he will swear any thing in support of such prejudice.”

“Come, my friend, let us depart: thou art dreaming thou art dreaming. Rouse up all the energies of thy exalted mind, for thou art an highly-favoured one; and doubt thou not, that he whom thou servest, will be ever at thy right and left hand, to direct and assist thee.”

“After I said all that I could say, and all had been overborne, (I remember my actions and words as well as it had been yesterday,) I turned round hesitatingly, and looked up to Heaven for direction; but there was a dimness came over my eyes that I could not see. The appearance was as if there had been a veil drawn over me, so nigh that I put up my hand to feel it”

“What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?”

“After weeks, I observed, somewhat to my amazement, that we had never once prayed together; and more than that, that he had constantly led my attentions away from that duty, causing me to neglect it wholly. I thought this a bad mark of a man seemingly so much set on inculcating certain important points of religion, and resolved next day to put him to the test. He objected boldly”
He’s with the devil

“Is there not enough of merit in the blood of Jesus to save thousands of worlds, if it was for these worlds that he died? (…) "What your hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might, for none of us knows what a day may bring forth?" That is, none of us knows what is pre-ordained, but whatever is pre-ordained we must do, and none of these things will be laid to our charge.”