Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it.

I ascribe my change wholly to God.

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.