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

If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on him by faith, for peace and reconciliation with God.... If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ.

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

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

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

Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.

Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace and the Bible every day.