To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.

I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.