Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
J. C. RyleElection is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.
J. C. RyleWe must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven โ the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life; the love of riches, pleasures and honors, the spirit of lukewarmness and carelessness and indifference about the things of God โ all must be rooted out and forsaken if we are anxious for the prize. We must mortify the deeds of the body, we must crucify our affections for this world.
J. C. RylePeople fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
J. C. Ryle