Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.

Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

The Lord Jesus is "a friend who never changes." There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God

Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved. Let us pray for and cultivate humility; let us seek to know ourselves correctly, and to find out our place in the sight of a holy God.