"True morality, then, is that we conform to God’s own design in making him our chief end: holiness consists primarily in love to God, which is exercised in a high esteem of God, admiration of his perfections, complacency in them, and praise of them." (Jonathan Edwards)

--Esther Burr, wife of Aaron Burr; daughter of Jonathan Edwards. She died when she was 26, in the year 1756.

"ordinary works that are done in faith, and from faith, are more precious than heaven and earth." Luther