HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.

My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.

We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.