Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.

A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

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

Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.

We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.