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

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.

Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings.

All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and clearly that everybody can understand it. If 'Christ crucified' has not His rightful place in your sermons, and sin is not exposed as it should be, and your people are not plainly told what they ought to believe, and be, and do - your preaching is of no use!