Date: 1868

" My heart within like wax doth melt, / And on Thy cross my nature bleeds."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"And take possession of Thy own / And seal my heart for ever Thine."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"And through Thy sacred blood applied / My soul shall feel its pardon seal'd"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"Assure us of Thy constant care, / And on our hearts the answer seal."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"And let our souls the kiss receive / Which seals our inward peace."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

One may present to Jesus "The myrrh of passions mortified, / The gold of charity" and "The incense sweet of humble prayer"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

"And doth even now His peace impart, / And stamps His image on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1868

God's "coming from above" may stamp his image on one's heart

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: October 10, 1869

"Recitations alone readily degenerate into dusty repetitions, and lectures alone are too often a useless expenditure of force. The lecturer pumps laboriously into sieves. The water may be wholesome, but it runs through."

— Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)

Date: April 26 1870

"Enough to throw one's thoughts in heaps / Of doubt and horror,—what to say / Or think,—this awful secret sway, / The potter's power over the clay!"

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)