Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.

The key to understanding the Bible is Jesus Christ.

What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.

True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.

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