The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.

What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form?

What we call a vice is actually an inability to recognize what has the greatest value.

The ultimate good is to treat something according to it's true value.

choice.—The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does?

Meditation is a serious intention of the mind whereby wee come to search out the truth, and settle it effectually upon the heart.

We ought to be much concerned to know whether we do not live in the gratification of some lust, either in practice or in our thoughts: whether we do not live in the omission of some duty, some thing which God expects we should do; whether we do not go into some practice or manner of behaviour, which is not warrantable.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

We need to set our affections on one good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.

The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.