We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

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