Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.