The best of men are men at best
If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.
We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.
There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God