Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.

Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.

Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.