Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. Believing, then, is directing the hearts' attention to Jesus. It is lifting the mind to 'behold the Lamb of God,' and never ceasing that beholding for the rest of our lives.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.